Onboard Raid question

[dbailey]

A friend of mine has all of his pictures, music and videos on 3 hard drives in raid 5 attached to his motherboard. No backup of course. The motherboard just took a nosedive and won't boot up. If I configure 3 sata ports on a different motherboard for raid 5 and plug in the drives, is there any chance that it will boot up? Or is he hosed?

Thanks,
Dbailey

 

[hennessy1]

With motherboard raid you need to have the same chipset that the raid was created on.

 

[dbailey]

Thanks for the info.. buying a new matching board on ebay. Hopefully it will come up.

 

[Cr0nJ0b]

I can's remember for 100% sure, but i think that when I moved from on Intel chipset to another, that the raid config carried over. That said, since you don't have a backup...I would get the exact same chipset and plug the drives in and make sure that it sees them correctly. Then i would load an OS on a primary drive partition, other than the RAID set, then plug the drives in (don't have them plugged in during the oS load). and finally backup the data and move on. The reason I would go through all this, is to make absolutely sure that you have a good backup copy (tested copy) of the data before replacing with a new mobo. Just to make double sure that you don't lose anything,