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Raided Drives and New MB?

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pgde1

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Need some advice. This morning my trusty old Q9650 chip bit the dust after 7 wonderful years of service on my DFI LanParty UT -- ICH5 chipset. I also have my Raided Velocorapter HDs in good condition. Am on Win7 Pro. So can I just attach my old drives to the new motherboard and have Windows read the drives and update the configuration? All my serial numbers, etc are on those drives. I do have a windows home server 2 day old backup if that won't work -- Could I restore to the drives after wiping them on the new motherboard? BTW this is Raid0!

One more question in this vein -- suppose I purchase new SSDs -- can I use my WHS (V1) backup to restore to that and have Windows reconfigure?

Thx

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You should backup or image your RAID0 array to a single drive, preferably external. (I would clone the array to a single drive.) If your RAID0 is software controlled, that is by the mobo, it will have to be rebuilt.
 
Thanks fellow Tucsonian! I guess that means I can use my Windows Home Server backup and restore it to the new SSD in the new machine. It is on a single drive. The RAID array is managed by the Intel ICH5 chipset -- is that software controlled?

BTW I am over on the East side next to Saguaro NP East! Where are you?

Thanks for the seemingly good news!

P.
 
Yesterday I lost my beloved old XP machine - total chaos! But! I had all my data files on a RAID1 array. And, they were on a pair of SATA HDDs. So, I simply moved one of the drives to a newer Win7/8.1 machine, and voila! All were there. The beauty of RAID1!

I am not as far East -1/2 mile East of Craycroft and North of River My RAID array was hardware controlled - another antique - a Promise card.

Now I need to figure out how to connect my venerable LaserJet 4000, my Epson scanner, and my Dymo label/stamp printer. Not fun.
 
pgde1 said:
The RAID array is managed by the Intel ICH5 chipset -- is that software controlled?
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Yes. Some use term "fakeRAID" to separate them form pure software RAID.

RAID0 means striping; data is interlaced over the disks. No redundancy whatsoever.

The ICH5 has written to each disk information about how the stripes have been done (the order of disks and size of data chunks) and that information is in whatever format and place the ICH5 was using.

The question is whether there is a RAID implementation that can find and read the information written by the ICH5 in order to interpret the actual data. You did not say what chipset your new machine has. There is a slim chance that a current Intel chipset can still decipher the musings of its ancestor.

There is plan B though; Linux software RAID might understand the ICH5 format. A Linux rescue distro can boot from USB-drive (or PXE).
 
If using Z97, **maybe**.

However the failsafe way is to get a used MB / CPU on ebay, recover the data to external drive, then build new system. I assume you will be installing windows fresh, if not, windows will not boot or work on a whole new platform. If you could somehow make it work, it would be a wreck.
 
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