Need to reinstall OS and have existing RAIDS. Badly need advice.

[Matt_Stevens]

Gents, you were all beyond helpful to me almost one year ago when i built my system. I need help again.

My Windows 7 Pro is hopelessly corrupted. No idea how or why but after weeks of struggling to fix it I have made the decision to wipe clean and re-install.

However, I am unsure of how to handle my existing RAIDS: A stripped pair of Samsung (RAID 0) and two Samsungs in a Mirror. I have tons and tons of data on both drives I use for editing and don't want those drives wiped.

My OS drive is an Intel SSD.

How do I go about redoing this system and adding those drives back in, as they are, so that the RAIDS are recognized? The striped RAID in particular worries me.

I have never had to re-install on OS with a RAIDed system before.

Thanks in advance.

3.4GHz i7 system spegs specs:

MSI P67A-GD65 B3 mb
Intel SSD
Two Samsung spinpoints in a RAID 0
Two 1TB samsungs in a RAID mirror
One 1TB WD green drive
MSI N460GTX GeForce GTX
16 GB ram

My system, before it was all put together...

 

[groberts101]

simply make note of the order and ports attached and remove the sata leads to each drive. Even if you got them mixed up a bit?.. the controller will still read them just fine though.

then rebuild the system and hook them back up. Not mandatory but you could also reinstall the same Intel driver used before the system disks install went AWOL.

Intel is VERY flexible like that and you could even move those arrays to another Intel raid based system and have full access to files. Easy peasy