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HDD's Raid 0 Can I replace mob with loosing everything?

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badnewcastle

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I have 2 80g that are in raid 0 with no back atm. (I know, not he smartest thing to do).

I just noticed a short on my motherboard and know that I will have to replace it soon. Since I had to set the raid up in the bios, this leads me to believe that I will have wipe the drives. Is this true? I'm sure people have tried it.
 
How did you "notice a short"? If you have a short, your system would either burn out or have serious issues working.

If you get a board with the same RAID controller, or possibly one that's the same brand/product line, there's a good chance that the array will be detected by the new chipset and not have to be modified. If the new board has a different controller, then you will without fail need to wipe it out and build a new array with the new board, then restore your data (of course if you get a different board, you'll want to at least do a repair install of Windows anyway).

Even if somebody told you it was guaranteed that it would work, you still shouldn't change out something like that without a backup. That's just asking for it to fail and leave you with no computer and all your files lost.

Get a cheap hard drive and an external enclosure (or a cheap prebuilt external hard drive) and make a backup. Or back up to CDRW. If you actually have nearly 160GB of data that'd only take 125 or more CD's with high compression. 🙂
 
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