Guest Thumper Posted August 11, 2007 Posted August 11, 2007 I have two SATA Maxtor hard drives in a raid in my now defunct computer. Is there any way to get access to the data on those hard drives without getting a mobo with RAID on my new computer? If so, does it have to be the same "version" of raid? What I mean is that I remember that FastTrack used to have a 33 and 100 version and I don't think RAIDed hard drives on either were compatible with each other. Know what I mean? Anyway, do I need to buy a mobo with RAID again?
Guest DL Posted August 11, 2007 Posted August 11, 2007 Re: RAID hard drives in new PC without raid: access data? Depends what type of raid was configured origonally. If it was mirror raid, instal a single drive as slave in a new system & copy data across However if it was a striped raid array, all is probably lost "Thumper" <thumperstrauss@gmail.com> wrote in message news:1186840006.453584.216370@z24g2000prh.googlegroups.com... >I have two SATA Maxtor hard drives in a raid in my now defunct > computer. Is there any way to get access to the data on those hard > drives without getting a mobo with RAID on my new computer? > > If so, does it have to be the same "version" of raid? What I mean is > that I remember that FastTrack used to have a 33 and 100 version and I > don't think RAIDed hard drives on either were compatible with each > other. Know what I mean? > > Anyway, do I need to buy a mobo with RAID again? >
Guest Thumper Posted August 11, 2007 Posted August 11, 2007 Re: RAID hard drives in new PC without raid: access data? What do you mean "lost". Assuming the hard drive didn't fail, then why can't I just install these drives in a new system that has SATA RAID? > However if it was a striped raid array, all is probably lost >
Guest frodo@theshire.net Posted August 11, 2007 Posted August 11, 2007 Re: RAID hard drives in new PC without raid: access data? Thumper <thumperstrauss@gmail.com> wrote: > What do you mean "lost". Assuming the hard drive didn't fail, then why > can't I just install these drives in a new system that has SATA RAID? because different raid drivers/chipsets organize the drive contents differently. if the user data was split across multiple drives (raid 0 for example), then you need a driver that gets the parts and puts them back together again JUST RIGHT. Your best bet would be to backup the data from the old machine and restore it to the new, assuming the old is still functional or can be made functional. Otherwise the data is lost unless you had a backup of it somewhere else. But the drives themselves can of course be reformatted and used again. And don't use raid 0 on the new system without working out a good backup plan for the next time... BTW, if the new system does use the SAME chipset (family) and drivers you _MAY_ be able to resurect the data - you would need to configure the new system for the exact same settings as the old in the raid bios (ie, raid stripe size) and hook the drives up - you may find that the data is there. This might work if, for example, both MoBo's use the Intel ICHxR chip and the same version of the IAA or IMM driver. I may be worth a try as a last resort. Just don't bet the farm on it.
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