Recovering RAID Setup

[DreamKaZz]

Recently my motherboard died, came in one day the I had a nice black screen and now it refuse to boot up.

I had my system drive on 2 x 40GB HDs in RAID 0 (Stripping).
My old motherboard was a KR7A-RAID (with high point 372 raid controller) and i would like to know if I could recover my data if I setup the drives the same way on another raid controller. I ordered a Gigabyte 7NNXP wich have raid but its a GigaRaid controller.

Is this possible?

 

[overclock]

The Gigabyte board uses and ITE 8121 chip and it SUCKS! I have the cheaper cousin, the 7N400 Pro. The read speed was FAST at something like 80 MB/sec. However, the write speed was SLOW at 21 MB/sec. So don't even bother with the IDE RAID on this board. I tried multiple configurations this weekend to do some video capture/editing and the RAID was slower than the regular IDE ports so I went with the regular IDE. Here are my SiSoft Sandra results for 2 Maxtor 80GB 8MB cache drives setup up as RAID 0:

Benchmark Breakdown
Buffered Read : 80 MB/s
Sequential Read : 84 MB/s
Random Read : 8 MB/s
Buffered Write : 21 MB/s
Sequential Write : 21 MB/s
Random Write : 21 MB/s
Average Access Time : 8 ms (estimated)


Check out AMDMB forums for more details.

Your transfer might not work too well considering the difference in controllers. You can give it a shot but don't hold your breath. You should try to find another KR7A-RAID on the FS/FT forum or ebay and back it up to another drive. Somewhere there is a Win98 bootdisk that will allow you to see the RAID. I can e-mail you the file if you would like. Just PM me and I will send it to you. I booted to it and used Ghost to transfer the RAID to a new hard drive. Went smooth. I decided to move my essential info off of RAID because of fear of your exact predicament.

 

[DreamKaZz]

I agree raid is not really worth the hassle especialy after what happen to me, I was thinking I could maybe get a Hight-Point 370/372 PCI Raid controller card and recover from there on the 7NNXP?