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NIGHTMARE! installed new mobo but OLD drives...

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oajr

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boots, bios sees the drives on sata raid......but WINDOWS does not.....please tell me it's as simple as downloading the SATA/raid drivers and using them when booting from the Windows XP setup disk (f6).......i am hard pressed not to format my drives as i don't want to lose what is on them.........rest of install was a cinch (although i forgot to install the atx 12v plug onto the mobo, took me an hour to figure that one out!!)

HELP!!! thanks in advance
 
I am not sure you can take a raid array and just move it to another controller. You might want to try to making sure you have the array actually setup through the controller and not just the controller reconizing the drives.
 
thanks. i suppose my question is whether or not my data on the original drives will be lost. if that's the case, i'd rather keep the hard drives and buy a new drive and somehow rescue the data at some later time.

alas
 
wait so you have windows installed on the drives, but you are placeing them in a NEW mobo,

that NEVER WORKS, even if raid wasent involved, changing CPUs on the same mobo is fine but when you change the mobo alltogether it just causes major fing issues

my suggestion is to but a new drive of use an olld one and install windows on it so you can pull the data off the other drives
 
ANUBIS!!!!!! YES! that is exactly the case. most excellent sir, i shall visit my local best buy and do as you suggest. my last question on the subject (i hope) is "would the new drive be set up on the NON-RAID (sata) inputs on the mobo, and would the OLD drives then daisy chain off the new one or will they also use the other sata inputs? my old drives were RAID 0 on my old mobo.

thanks.
 
humm seeing as they were raid im not sure, however install windows on the new drive as a stand alone drive, normal sata,

the other 2 most likely will have to be set up on the raid satas, however im not positive you can make it so windows will see them correctly

if when you get it running windows will see the drives but regnoizes them as unformatted, you can use a program called "Get Data Back" by runtimesoft, it is honestly the BEST data recover program there is, as long as teh drive will spin it will get your data, there is a NTFS and a FAT version just get the correct one, it costs like 80$, its saved my ass many times
 
Originally posted by: oajr
boots, bios sees the drives on sata raid......but WINDOWS does not.....please tell me it's as simple as downloading the SATA/raid drivers and using them when booting from the Windows XP setup disk (f6).......i am hard pressed not to format my drives as i don't want to lose what is on them.........rest of install was a cinch (although i forgot to install the atx 12v plug onto the mobo, took me an hour to figure that one out!!)

HELP!!! thanks in advance
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Problem description: You have a SATA hard drive, and you moved it from one computer with a motherboard of type a to a computer with motherboard of type b. When you try to boot, the machine reboots or gives BSODs, showing STOP 7B, INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE. Right?

If so, just put the hard drive back in the old machine/motherboard, and do either or both of these things: Change your IDE HDD controller to "Standard PCI IDE Controller" and install the drivers for your new motherboard's SATA controller.

That will fix your problem. I've documented this fix on countless threads in this forum. It works. (This assumes you don't have a HAL issue.)

If you were using a motherboard's built-in RAID, then you're dead in the water. Typically you cannot move motherboard-RAID'ed drives from one motherboard to another because the RAID hardware writes different data to the hard drives depending on the vendor of the RAID setup. For example, you could easily move a LSI 500 SCSI RAID setup to a LSI 1500 SCSI RAID controller, but you couldn't move it to an Adaptec RAID controller - the Adaptec RAID controller would not recognize the drives as being part of a RAID array.

That's why I suggest you NEVER use built-in RAID on a motherboard unless you're in a server situation (say, a Compaq/Dell/etc. server) and you have a serious backup scenario and a serious hardware replacement warranty.
 
thank you all. my old mobo was an asus sk8n and had promise raid controllers as part of the chipset. the drives definately work, they spin and the like. i was simply hoping to use them in the new machine setup. i like the idea of trying to boot (new mobo) using a floppy-sata drivers/windows setup xp-f6 and see if that works. if it does not, i will install the new hard drive and see if i can recover data from the OLD drives at a later point in time.

thank you all for your very thoughtful and helpful responses.

 
Originally posted by: oajr
thank you all. my old mobo was an asus sk8n and had promise raid controllers as part of the chipset. the drives definately work, they spin and the like. i was simply hoping to use them in the new machine setup. i like the idea of trying to boot (new mobo) using a floppy-sata drivers/windows setup xp-f6 and see if that works. if it does not, i will install the new hard drive and see if i can recover data from the OLD drives at a later point in time.

thank you all for your very thoughtful and helpful responses.
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You need your new motherboard to recognize the drives as a RAID array, right? Unless they'll do that, you're wasting your time thinking you will get any data from them.

Is that right?
 
without trying to sound ignorant, yes. what i'm after is the data that is on them. i don't care if they're raid this or raid that, i obviously made a mistake having them set up that way a couple of years ago (socket 940 board was the other mistake!).

it sounds like some are saying that if i install my OLD drives on this new motherboard i will NOT be able to recover ANY data REGARDLESS of what i do.

some say that all i need to do is load up the sata raid drivers during the windows xp setup/repair process

some say that i should move to a new drive (for o.s. purposes) and try retrieving data from the old ones.

if the latter doesn't work, at the worse, i'll have a new drive for windows xp and a couple of spare drives (nice ones though) for data/game purposes.

i hate raid.
 
Originally posted by: oajr
without trying to sound ignorant, yes. what i'm after is the data that is on them. i don't care if they're raid this or raid that, i obviously made a mistake having them set up that way a couple of years ago (socket 940 board was the other mistake!).

it sounds like some are saying that if i install my OLD drives on this new motherboard i will NOT be able to recover ANY data REGARDLESS of what i do.

some say that all i need to do is load up the sata raid drivers during the windows xp setup/repair process

some say that i should move to a new drive (for o.s. purposes) and try retrieving data from the old ones.

if the latter doesn't work, at the worse, i'll have a new drive for windows xp and a couple of spare drives (nice ones though) for data/game purposes.

i hate raid.
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If you used hardware raid, another vendor's hardware raid will only see those drives as a bunch of disks, and data you had on them will be useless.

The people talking about SATA drivers/etc. aren't familiar with how RAID works.

I'm assuming you had a RAID5 setup of some sort, or a RAID0 setup of some sort. If that's the case, the data is striped between the multiple disks, and only the RAID controller (brand, vendor) that put it there will be able to make use of it and read it again. If you want your data, hook it up to your old PC (the RAID set) and then copy it all to a plain SATA disk. Or Ghost it to that disk...that would be fine too.

I'm still not clear on exactly what the problem is that you're experiencing though. You put these disks (what RAID level?) into your new machine ... then what? Go through it again for us. Are you saying you already have Windows XP installed on a plain single SATA disk, and now you want to move your RAID set of xyz disks from the old PC to the new one? If so, you're screwed. You can go into your new motherboard's RAID controller BIOS and see if a RAID set is recognized, but if the vendor is different, I think you're out of luck.
 
" my old drives were RAID 0 on my old mobo. "

dclive you are correct, he has raid 0 so he has to put the old hardware back in and the save all the data to a fresh drive, then switch it all back to the new hardware and load windows on his original sata drives, if he goes raid again, then he has his data on the new drive and can access it at will🙂 all of this of course assumes he hasnt done anything to corrupt the original raid setup....
 
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