RAID1 disks viewable on another RAID setup?

[Darren S]

Chaps,

Just head-scratching a little here. I recently replaced my mobo and a few other bits, together with a reformat of Windows 7.

I had the OS on a RAID0 volume and Steam backups, patches, downloads etc on a seperate RAID1 volume. Both RAID volumes were controlled by an nVidia nvRAID controller built onto the mobo.

Now I've swapped the mobo out along with the other bits and reformatted the RAID0 volume so that everything is fine from an OS view. However, the RAID BIOS just sees the old RAID1 disks as exactly that - disks that it wants to wipe and create a new array with.

Is there any way I can copy the contents from the RAID1 volume across to the new RAID0 volume? I've had a look in the Intel Matrix Storage Manager app that comes with the new board, but again, it's only option appears to be wiping afresh and starting again.

Any suggestions would be appreciated as I'm LOATHE to connect everything back up with the old mobo etc, simply to copy data across.

Cheers,
D.

 

[David]

is it different brands of mobo? i had the same issue, unless they're pretty much identical i couldn't find a way of doing it, i went from an nvidia board to a intel based one. had to start over

 

[Darren S]

is it different brands of mobo? i had the same issue, unless they're pretty much identical i couldn't find a way of doing it, i went from an nvidia board to a intel based one. had to start over

That's exactly the same issue here, m8.

I'm hoping that some Linux Guru will come on here and recommend a bootable CD that reads all sorts of RAID arrays!

D.

 

[rogueneo]

even though a raid set-up in theory is the same , each motherbaord uses different northbridge and southbridge controls. so it may be that your new board is nvidia run but used a different controller on the other board. the thing you could do rather than lose the data is get someone with another computer to pull of the essential files you need. then set -up a new boot raid up. even though at the mo you cant boot the drives should still be readable on another pc.

 

[rogueneo]

if not if you dont mind losing the data go into your boot setup sometimes access to this via f8 before the windows screen or through you bios

 

[Darren S]

Cheers for the suggestion rogue. I think I'll put the old mobo into a spare PC carcass and use a crappy little IDE HDD to put an OS onto. From there, I'll attach the RAID1 volume and plug in an external drive to copy the data to - like I should have bloody done in the first place!

D.

 

[rogueneo]

using ghost is good to clone your drives or partition magic should do trick both are free on cnet

 

[Darren S]

using ghost is good to clone your drives or partition magic should do trick both are free on cnet

Got it copying across in 20mins, m8.

Whacked the old mobo in a PC carcass and it still had the CPU, HSF and memory bolted onto it. I just attached it to the chassis, found an old drive with WinXP preinstalled on it and added the chipset & RAID drivers when it booted. Shut it down and added the RAID1 volume and started copying it across to the external HDD. That was the bit that took ages!

D.

 

[rogueneo]

glad u got it sorted