Ok, I have WinXP installed on a dual raid-0 array (seagate 160GB SATA drives) running on my Athlon 64 machine with MSI K8T Neo motherboard. The raid-0 feature is provided by the VIA chipset (K8T800 + 8237) on the motherboard.
I understand that the raid array drives are only readable using the VIA chipset raid controller and will not work if attached to a different motherboard. In fact I also have a linux partition on a separate drive attached to this machine, which could never access the raid array (the device mapper doesn't support this raid controller).
So I want to replace the motherboard (and possibly the CPU), I gues I would need to copy the partition (it's a single 320GB partition on the two 160GB raid drives). Any windows software tools to do that ? Would I need to connect a backup drive to copy the raid partition image onto it, and could I do it thru the local network copying it to a drive attached to another machine ?
Appreciate your help.
I understand that the raid array drives are only readable using the VIA chipset raid controller and will not work if attached to a different motherboard. In fact I also have a linux partition on a separate drive attached to this machine, which could never access the raid array (the device mapper doesn't support this raid controller).
So I want to replace the motherboard (and possibly the CPU), I gues I would need to copy the partition (it's a single 320GB partition on the two 160GB raid drives). Any windows software tools to do that ? Would I need to connect a backup drive to copy the raid partition image onto it, and could I do it thru the local network copying it to a drive attached to another machine ?
Appreciate your help.
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