Hi Mike_Visconti,
I understand you are having isues with the computer and reformatting. There is a BIOS setting, enable RAID , that allows the computer to be reconfigured. Here is a document on updating the BIOS .
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c00007682&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en
Hope this helps.
Thanks.