yeah, im pretty savvy on burning iso disks and booting live distros off DVD.s and USB's. My trouble was with this stupid SATA controller. I ended up taking the raid function off and it installed Linux Mint 15 just fine on the 1 HD (after it had a fatal error trying to install on the RAID array) so Im going with this if I can get my WIFI stable...Still looking for my Win7 install disk.