Salvage RAID?

[swimsalot]

Hi, great forum, appreciate any help!
1.Building a new system for home, would like to take the current HD's (2X Seagate-80gb 7200rpm RAID 0) and transfer them into a new mobo. Any way to do this? Would really like to NOT have to re-install everything...
2. I also have a WD 10k Raptor (36gb) SATA 150. Will the SATA 150 work in a MOBO that runs SATA 3gb/s?

 

[kjv1611]

1. There are hardware and software solutions for this - depends upon how much time and money you want to spend.

2. Yes.

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[wahnula]

swimsalot,

The safest way to do what you wish to do would be to Ghost your C: RAID 0 array to a single (third) disk connected to the old machine, then boot from that disk to be sure the clone is good.

Next, take the clone and install as single IDE in the new machine. Boot to Windows CD and do the second repair option, also called an in-place install. Check operation of all apps.

Then assemble the new RAID 0 array on the new MB, which will wipe your old data, unless you are using a PCI RAID card or the new MB has an identical RAID controller chip. Clone over from the single disk and you should be good to go, but with a lot of extra junk that might slow your system down.

If you're running RAID 0, you should have a backup drive...use it for the cloning procedure. If you don't have a backup drive, get one!

Tony