new motherboard and migraing RAID 0

[apathy_next2]

so my mobo died, about to get another one. i was wondering if it would be an issue using my old raid o setup. is it just a matter of configuring the drives in the raid bios? do i need to be cautious of anything our take any other steps?

I'm going from amd msi 785g board to a gigabyte 970.

thank you

 

[jimpz]

Odds are you are not going to be able to reconfig that rais on a new motherboard. If the 2 mobo were identical, or very nearly so, & you configured them identically you would probably get the raid back. On a completely different mobo, it's going to be nearly impossible to to recover the raid as odds are the boios from each mfg are different.

Jim

 

[apathy_next2]

shit i guess my best chance is to buy another same board and i should not have any problems yes?

 

[Cr0nJ0b]

If you get the same board or chipset it's likely that the system will just "see" the raid as it was before. That's the case with Intel at least. I've had RAID sets build on ICH7 moved to ICH8 with no issues at all. I can't say that this will work for non intel boards or chips but I would suspect that if it's the same mfg you would be okay. The other option would be to use a software tool to put the RAID back together in SW and then copy the data off to another drive.

If it were me I would hunt on ebay for the same mobo as you had previously or at least the same chipset. then load it up, copy the data off, sell the board, buy the board you want and restore everything to that new board. it's complex but that way you get a new board/system and keep your data. SW would work but might be expensive.

 

[AMDBOY]

Op, I saw a solution on this thread http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/252965-32-transfer-raid-array that may be helpful to you. Credit goes to sub mesa for the useful info.

It appears I may be able to retrieve 30+ Gigs of music I had stored in a Raid 0 array from a rig that died many years ago. I'll have to try this method myself.

Sub mesa wrote- "You can do two things:

- buy a motherboard of the same chipset so you can migrate your existing RAID without any form of backup (dangerous)
- recover your RAID using read-only techniques and put it on new harddrives (safe)

The second option would work with any chipset, preferably those who do not support RAID, using any Linux or BSD system. For example, Ubuntu Linux would recognise your nVidia MediaShield soft-RAID array and apply its own RAID engine. This would allow you to copy all the data to new/other HDDs which you can access in Windows again. This operation is safe because it does not write a single byte to your existing disks with all the valuable data on it, so its a non-destructive procedure.

In either case, be very careful what you do. Its not that hard to screw things up and lose all your data in just one mouse click - especially on Windows when it prompts you to "initialize" the disks. "

Hope this is helpful to those with recovering/ migrating Raid arrays.
Any other easier methods or solutions appreciated. Thanks, amdboy.