New pc old hard drive...kinda different question.

Post by **Agent-X** » Wed May 10, 2006 12:09 am

Ok im rebuilding my pc. I'm replacing everything but my two 250gig sata hard drives that are in Raid 0 configuration. I have partitions C thru J. C is the windows partition. Do I have to reinstall windows? Or do I just boot into the windows XP Pro cd to load the sata drivers?

Post by **Scourge** » Wed May 10, 2006 12:21 am

Well considering that all your other hardware is now different I would think reinstalling would be the wise idea. You have everything in Windows configured for the old hardware which is now invalid. Unless having a Raid setup changes that. I have no idea on that.

At any rate all your old drivers need to be changed. Personally I would just reinstall.

Post by **Agent-X** » Wed May 10, 2006 12:31 am

What im really worried about is whether all my partitions will be reconised once I reinstall windows.

Post by **Tormentius** » Wed May 10, 2006 12:33 am

If you install it onto the C: drive, the rest will still be accessible after a reinstall.

Post by **Agent-X** » Wed May 10, 2006 12:34 am

Cool man thanks. 500gigs is a lot to have to do over again.

Post by **Scourge** » Wed May 10, 2006 12:38 am

Oh yeah, that's what I meant. Just reinstall windows and the rest should be fine. Did that recently myself. Not with a Raid setup, just several partitions.

Post by **Tormentius** » Wed May 10, 2006 12:40 am

Note that my above post assume you're using hardware RAID. If your RAID set was created in Windows then the data may or may not be accessible after a reinstall.

Post by **YourGrandpa** » Wed May 10, 2006 12:49 am

If he has a RAID 0 stripe set up on one PC, how can he move the array into a completely different PC? Isn't he going to have to break the array and lose all the info on his hard drives.

Post by **Oeloe** » Wed May 10, 2006 2:34 am

If you change the mobo you generally need to reinstall. Anything else can be done without a reinstall usually.

Post by **Agent-X** » Wed May 10, 2006 3:27 am

Yeah I didnt set it up in windows. Used the utility that came with the hd's.

Post by **axbaby** » Wed May 10, 2006 3:34 am

patition info is written on a special place on the disc independant of the OS

but when your talking Raid i have no clue

Post by **PieceMaker** » Wed May 10, 2006 5:12 am

I'm not at all technical here but is there any hope in using like an ultimatebootcd
to access the hard drive even if it won't show in bios? I think I'm answering my own question with one but I thought I'd throw that out there and confuse things abit. lol.

Post by **Magestic** » Wed May 10, 2006 8:46 am

I would say there is a 90% chance that your RAID0 array will not be recognized on a different mobo/controller...

Post by **Agent-X** » Wed May 10, 2006 12:08 pm

Ive been researching and I might have a better chance of doing this. The original mobo is an Asus Nforce 2 and im moving to and Asus Nforce4. Both controllers are Silicon Image. So maybe there is a chance. Still backing up stuff though.

Post by **Tormentius** » Wed May 10, 2006 11:54 pm

Magestic wrote:I would say there is a 90% chance that your RAID0 array will not be recognized on a different mobo/controller...

:icon14: I've read some more on it since and I'm about 90% sure Magestic is right.

New pc old hard drive...kinda different question.

New pc old hard drive...kinda different question.

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