MB Upgrade, but with RAID HDD Boot system

[jhlee99]

Okay, this might a little confusing, but I'll try to explain clearly as possible. I currently have 4 HDDs hooked up to a Promise TX2000 PCI IDE Raid controller. I have two arrays with 120GBs & 160GBs, both stripping (dual raid 0). My mobo is a MSI MS-6380 (AMD socket A) which includes a Promise FastTrack 100 Lite Raid, but it's been disabled when I upgraded to the TX2000 Raid Card. The 120GB HDD (array 0) has 3 partitions, all bootable with different OSs. The 160GB HDD is data only.

My questions is, if I upgrade my mobo & cpu to a Intel based mobo/cpu, can i still boot after the upgrade since i'm booting from a RAID? I know, normally, this shouldn't be a problem, just swap out the mobo and cpu and install same bootable HDDs and install the new chipset drivers.

 

[jbotz]

Should work with no problems at all, just plug and pray...

 

[jbotz]

Well, I am a bit remiss. It would depend on what operating system you're using. Win95/98/ME would work fine. XP would work after installing the new drivers and re-activating. 2000 most likely would not boot.

 

[jhlee99]

i'm using 2 win2k and one winxp.

 

[jbotz]

Your Windows 2000 will most likely need to be reinstalled. Unfortunately, I'm not sure if you can re-install 2k and keep your current programs and drivers. Might want to ask in the win2k forum.

-J