Migrating RAID 5 from ICH7R to ICH10R

[DCWillia]

My motherboard died with my RAID 5 array on the ICH7R from the 975x chipset on my ASUS P5W Dh Deluxe motherboard. Has anyone done this? Intel says not to attempt to boot from this array, but I was wondering if anyone has been successful in doing it. I am a A+ certified PC Tech and have no fear of the PC besides losing almost 1TB data.

 

[goombawaho]

I don't believe it will work. Why don't you hook it up as a slave drive and read the data off onto the new raid system?

 

[kjv1611]

Well, best way to get at the data, probably will be to get another motherboard with the same chipset - or even better, an identical motherboard - and see if it will open the exact same RAID for you... even if it will not, it'll give a better chance of recovery via partition recovery programs, I would think... If you go and connect to a whole different RAID setup, then it's anybody's guess.

If you can get another board, or whatever you want to try - it's your data after all - I'd personally recommend Active Partition Recovery. Then if you get the data recovered in place, that way, you can then back the data up to a back-up location, and be on your way, with whatever you want to do system-wise.

And in the end, it's a good lesson in backing up data, even from RAID configurations. Speaking of which, I need to get on the ball with backing up some data myself!

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"If to err is human, then I must be some kind of human!" -Me

 

[paparazi]

I had a little looksie when I took my raid 0 over from the same board 'P5W DH Deluxe' to my present Intel i7 Gigabyte board which I'm pretty sure has the ICH10R you mention.
Just didn't see it at all.
Martin

On wings like angels whispers sweet
my heart it feels a broken beat
Touched soul and hurt lay wounded deep
Brown eyes are lost afar and sleep

 

[DCWillia]

Hello to all!
I really appreciate all of your input. I have ordered a new motherboard (GA-EP45-UD3R)and a 1 TB hard drive. My current plan is to use the 1 TB as my system drive uhtil I have copied all of my data off the original RAID Array. Then I plan to re-create the drives using ICH10R drivers then move my data back to the Array. I will load my OS back to the first Array then I will use the 1 TB drive as a replacement for my Seagate 750GB drive that died with my backups on them. Any suggestions and/or corrections you may have will be greatly appreciated. Thanks again.

 

[paparazi]

How weired is that...that's both boards the same as mine.
Martin

On wings like angels whispers sweet
my heart it feels a broken beat
Touched soul and hurt lay wounded deep
Brown eyes are lost afar and sleep

 

[firewolfrl]

here is some software that may work to get te data on the RAID 5 setup
I have not used this program
Raid Reconstructor

http://www.runtime.org/raid.htm

I used this one to transfer motherboards
raid2raid

http://www.diskinternals.com/raid-to-raid/

this one is free and I had to copy all my data to a separate drive then create a new raid array on the new chipset. it worked great...beware this is not a fast process

you are better starting clean on your windows install so just saving the data is what you need