2nd HD and RAID

I recently purchased a Pavilion p6510y (4 months ago) which came with a SATA 720 GB HD configured as RAID. I added a SATA WD 80GB (WD800AAJS) to be used as a backup. Worked fine for a few weeks then when I rebooted the screen came up with BOOTMNGR cannot be found press CTRL-ALT-DEL to reboot. Did this several times with same results. Tech support didn't help too much. I started disconnecting devices one at a time and it finally came down to the 2nd HD. Once disconnected all is fine. Is there a way of adding a 2nd HD without this happening again. Is it something to do with RAID - not familiar too much with RAID. Motherboard is an ALOE with 6 SATA connectors and an AMD x4 CPU.
Thanks in advance
Dwight
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Hello deweymitch, It seems your system has the AMD Raid Utility. I am not familuar at all with this Raid Utility, as a matter of fact, this is the first time I have seen it. After going to the specifications for your system and doing a little research, it appears the the 750GB hard drive is listed as
1:MAS <Main HD> Assignment: LD 1-1 This listing appears to refer to this drive as Logical Drive (LD) 1-1, which I assume is Logical Drive 1-partition1. 3:MAS <2nd HD> Assignment <Single Disk> shows the second hard drive.
HD 1 shows everything normal (RAID ready) This means that this drive can be added to a second hard drive of the same capacity to create a Raid 0 or Raid1 array. This normally cannot be done in a conventional Raid setup with out loosing all the data on the drive, but it appears tha AMD can accomplish this by migrating the data on the drive to the other newer added drive for a Raid array. Shows nothing for 2nd HD would suggest this drive could not be added to another drive to create a Raid array. It does appear that the MBR may have become corrupted when you got the error. If the system is now booting to the desktop from the 750GB hard drive, with the 80GB drive attached and recognized, I would insure there is no data on the 80 GB drive that I needed and enter the Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Computer Management, Storage, Disk Management, and locate the 80 GB drive and delete the partition on this drive. Then create a New Volume, give the New Volume a name that you would recognize such as Western Digital 80 GB, or something of this nature, format it in NTFS, let the system assign a drive Lable letter. This would repair the MBR if it were corrupted. Close all the Windows, and copy and paste any data that you had backed up from the 80 GB drive.
As I mentioned earlier, I am not familuar with the AMD Raid Utility, but since you do not have enough drives on your system for a Raid array, I would not be concerned about Raid unless you continue to have issues with the drives. Many HP systems are shipped with Raid enabled in the BIOS. I am not sure why HP does this on a single hard drive system, but HP does sell systems with Raid arrays set up on two hards drives when shipped.
Raid arrays do have a place in computers, especially in Servers. I have used Raid arrays for over 15 years on all my homebuilt systems, and to be honest, I now see no purpose for a Raid system for normal home use. The use of Raid arrays can be a little complicated since Raid can be configured in many configurations, for different purposes. Raid is a technology in a league all it's own, so if you don't keep up with the changes in Raid, it's best not to try and use it. For the normal home user it appears to have no benefit. Just to put your mind at ease, just because you see the Raid Utility appear on your screen does not mean you are using a Raid array system, but just that the Raid controller is enabled on your system.
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