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no unfortunately it does not work that way, the drivers tell the controller how to behave, be it in normal SATA mode or RAID mode. That is why there are usually 2 sets of drivers for a controller ( intel is the exception ), So depending on what controller you have on your motherboard and if you have 2 , which one you use you will use. You have to connect your SATA drives then boot into your bios and then enable raid for the controller you are going to use. You will then save all the changes you made to the bios ( usually F10 ) and then you can reboot with your windows CD in to prepare for install. Before you get to that though you will have to enter the raid utility by hitting the assigned keys ( eg, intel is Ctrl I ) for your motherboard controller. You then create your RAID 0 in the utility and save and exit. The next step is to watch out for the F6 prompt in your windows install and load the Raid drivers that you have installed to a floppy disk. Once this is done your windows install will carry on as usual and once done you can then install all your chipset drivers and such.
This is a pretty basic over view and if you want more info let me know or read up a little in your motherboard manual . The Raid sections are usually toward the end.
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