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Transferring HDD data to newer machine

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garyknowz1

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Greetings from Davis, CA!

Not quite sure where to put this. But I had a question about transferring files from older HDDs in RAID0 to a newer machine. I built my first system about a year ago (and it actually worked). The new system has Vista with plenty of HDD storage with 2 HDDs in RAID0, as well as a 1TB exterior slave. My old system, however, was an XP machine with 2 HDD also in a RAID0 array, the old Motherboard being an Asus P4C-800 dlx. I still have the old RAID0 drivers on floppy. The data on the old HDD amounts to about 400GB in NTSF, and I need to transfer the data to my new system but not sure how. I?ve looked a RAID Reconstructer from Runtime Software, but not exactly sure if that?s the way to go. The old HDDs work fine (as far as I know), so it doesn?t seem like a true recovery. Could someone please give me pointers as to how to achieve my goal? Thank you.

Best,
Gary Knowlton
 
It sounds like the old system is no longer available? The easiest and safest way would have been to copy the data from the old (running) system to the external 1 TB drive, build the new system, and copy the data to the new system. Is that no longer possible?
 
Unfortunately, yes. The MB died unexpectedly--par the course, I suppose. I had the files backed up virtually, but not externally. I ended up using the tower for the new system. I initially was going to slave the RAID to my new system and access the files that way, but the Promise controllers weren?t compatible with the new MB. I can look for a new MB P4C800, but that would require erecting a new PC just to pull these files off. I am hoping to avoid that option.
 
Any time you are dealing with "striped" data (portions of files are spread across multiple hard disks), it limits the recovery options. You either need to mount those drives back onto a compatible RAID controller or need a software solution like mentioned above. Looks like either will cost about $100. Using a new motherboard will be faster.

Looks like the P4C800 uses a Promise 20378 RAID controller.

I'm not sure what "virtual backups" are, but I suggest keeping backups on an independent storage system.
 
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