redoing raid without formatting?

[mjrand]

The motherboard on my laptop was defective and I sent it in for repair. When I sent it in, the two drives in it were configured as a RAID 1. When I got it back, they were no longer in a RAID. I went back to the RAID setup and it's telling me now that all data on the drives will be deleted if I recreate the RAID.

How can I recreate the RAID without formatting my drives?

 

[pugster]

You will have to delete the data and recreate the raid. I would get an disc imaging software like acronis, ghost or other hd imaging software on a cd and an external usb hard drive. Boot up the imaging software, and imaging the your hard drive into the external usb hard drive. Afterwards, recreate the raid in your laptop. Go back to your imaging software and put the image back into your hard drive.

 

[corkyg]

Pugster has it nailed. I just did this in order to upgrade the RAID 1 array to larger HDDs. I backed up the array to an external drive. Installed the new RAID 1 array and let it do its thing. When it was done, I restored the data from the external drive to the "empty" array. No problems.