How can I move two hard drives from one Raid 1 array to another?

[gopunk]

raid newbie here... sorry for the simple question

so... i'm setting up a computer, put two raptors in a raid 1 array using the onboard promise controller. but then i find out they released an update so that raid 1 is also provided through the southbridge. i figure this is faster, so i delete the array from the setup menu thing for the promise controller, then i add a new raid 1 array under hte intel software for the southbridge. but now my computer says it can't find a bootable device....

i remember when i first did this, i had to press f6 during windows setup to install windows... but i dont' want to have to install windows again. what should i do?

thanks

 

[gopunk]

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[Dravic]

the F6 this was for windows to be able to use the PCI controller, if you have already applied the patch/update that gives you the new raid1 setup, then that is more then likely the only software you need.

Have you made sure that you have changed your boot sequence in the bios. You may need to move you first boot choice from scsi to onboard, or what ever they choices may be. You pc may still be looking for the PCI controller to boot off of.

Worst case is that the two devices create raid1 arrays using signifcantly different methods, and the arrays are not compatible between the two different devices.

gl

 

[gopunk]

Originally posted by: Dravic
the F6 this was for windows to be able to use the PCI controller, if you have already applied the patch/update that gives you the new raid1 setup, then that is more then likely the only software you need.

hmmm... well i tried installing the drivers for the intel solution in windows, but it said it wasn't compatible with my hardware configuration... so i figured it probably wanted me to put the drives in the new raid1 setup first. but i guess that doesn't make too much sense... the only thing i changed was to update the mb bios because it contained an update the intel software (the one that shows up if you hit ctrl-i when booting up) that would allow raid 1 (it used to just be raid 0).

so because the new raid 1 thing is on the southbridge, i don't need any drivers or anything? i don't get it because windows set up tells me it can't find any storage devices, so i figured i must be missing that part....

Have you made sure that you have changed your boot sequence in the bios. You may need to move you first boot choice from scsi to onboard, or what ever they choices may be. You pc may still be looking for the PCI controller to boot off of.

yes i'm pretty sure it is looking for the right thing because it says something about intel in the device name in the boot device list.

Worst case is that the two devices create raid1 arrays using signifcantly different methods, and the arrays are not compatible between the two different devices.

yea... i'm hoping that's not the case. well at least this is before i put too much stuff on (just windows, norton, and ZA really)

 

[Mday]

you deleted the old array. good job, you just made your HDD useless for the time being. connect one of the HDDs to another computer, and see if you can recover any data.

you will be reinstalling windows.

 

[gopunk]

Originally posted by: Mday
you deleted the old array. good job, you just made your HDD useless for the time being. connect one of the HDDs to another computer, and see if you can recover any data.

you will be reinstalling windows.

haha ok i guess that sucks. oh well no data to recover, just annoying to reinstall windows...

so how does raid work exactly, i was under the impression the hardware just writes the same bits to both drives, so you can take either one in case one fails, and just use it as a single drive. so thought deleting the array was just telling the computer not to associate the two drives with each other anymore. i take it creating / deleting arrays actually puts some information on the drives themselves?

also, how do i get windows setup to recognize the new array? as i mentioned before, for the onboard promise controller i had to press f6, but now i'm being told that was just for the pci controller. yet windows set up says it can't find the new array.... so i need to reformat the hard drives with fdisk or something?

thanks