New SATA RAID card doesnt recognise old data drives

[UnknownEntity]

Hi everyone,

I have just put in a sata XFX raid card to hook up 6 old drives I had previously on an old system. The problem is when the PC boots up into windows xp and after clicking on the sata raid utility, the software does recognise the drives but prompts me for a new array.

If i create a new array wouldnt the data be lost? Also in Computer Management in control panel (disk management) the popup wizard comes up as new drive and further gives me the option to format the disk!?

Can anyone help me sort the issue out. I obviously dont want to lose data on my drives but I was hoping the new sata raid card would see the drives as data drives and let me get on with it.

Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

UE.

 

[wahnula]

UnknownEntity

You cannot usually change RAID controllers and expect the new controller to recognize your old RAID array, unless it is the exact same controller brand & model. Each controller writes data to the disk to recognize it in its own, usually proprietary, format.

Best way to upgrade/change RAID controllers is to back up everything important, image the current array to another partition or array, verify the image, then re-create a new array with the new controller, then reload the old image.

Tony