You'll loose it again, no turn around. you'll have to rebuild the RAID array from scratch. Perform an image backup of the RAID array, get the new board, build the RAID and then deploy the previous saved image to the array again. Chances are that you won't need to reinstall windows since boards share the same chipset, no major hardware differences between boards.
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With a raid card you won't have problems, i assumed you had RAID configured on your board's controllers
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I'm not very familiar with Acronis, i use norton ghost 2003 more, but the process should be the same, doing an image of the whole drive (assuming RAID0) and it will preserve all the info from MFT. If you can't boot from a CD to restore the image and load the RAID controller driver to it, you'll need to boot from another disk into windows and restore the image from there. After that, choose in BIOS to boot from the RAID array and you're done
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You may encounter some problems loading windows for the first time, as it was installed on a different board, so you should have you Win7 installation disk with you in case of you need to repair anything on it, or performing a clean install if everything else fails.
You may encounter some problems loading windows for the first time, as it was installed on a different board, so you should have you Win7 installation disk with you in case of you need to repair anything on it, or performing a clean install if everything else fails.
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Please don't provide misinformation....
Just hook up the array to the new motherboard and it will be fine.
Same RAID controller + metadata on HDDs = fine.
That said.... always backup when migrating... just in case.
Updating a BIOS does not cause an array to be lost. Most likely issue was that you didn't re-enable the RAID mode.
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Metadata is on the drives.
Originally Posted by matroska  You'll loose it again, no turn around. you'll have to rebuild the RAID array from scratch. Perform an image backup of the RAID array, get the new board, build the RAID and then deploy the previous saved image to the array again. Chances are that you won't need to reinstall windows since boards share the same chipset, no major hardware differences between boards. |
Just hook up the array to the new motherboard and it will be fine.
Same RAID controller + metadata on HDDs = fine.
That said.... always backup when migrating... just in case.
Updating a BIOS does not cause an array to be lost. Most likely issue was that you didn't re-enable the RAID mode.
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Originally Posted by 6speed I'm going to make a image of my Raid but I was wondering don't you think if I just install the new MB, since it has the same raid controller, and go to the BIOS right away and set it to Raid wouldn't it just start up right? Is there Raid info, like strip size and stuff store on the MB or is all that info stored on the actual Raid HDD's? |
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Thanks everyone, I'm going to have to wait till my new HDD's come in to do the backup. I guess since it's a Raid array it takes twice as much space to backup
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Rep all around and a cake for Duckie since you can't get Rep
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Rep all around and a cake for Duckie since you can't get Rep
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There is a very high probability that it will just work. All the information is stored on the HDD. In fact the RAID controller has no way of knowing it was or was not already managing the array previously.
Originally Posted by matroska There is a chance that when you rebuild the RAID array it will work, but i can't guarantee you that. Stripe definitions are saved in the drives, though i'm not 100% sure of this, so you can reconstruct the RAID array through some 3rd party software application (got to dig up on this as i only helped to perform this once), but that will take you hours of work depending on the storage capacity and the drives, in case of your backup image get corrupted or something. |
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I wasn't trying to provide misinformation...i am truly sorry if i did.
Thnx for clarifying things up
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Originally Posted by DuckieHo There is a very high probability that it will just work. All the information is stored on the HDD. In fact the RAID controller has no way of knowing it was or was not already managing the array previously. |
Thnx for clarifying things up
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There's also the concept of doing a disk backup treating the entire raid as a single drive. If you can hook up an external USB drive or dock, you can "copy the files over". I often will do this as a crude backup in the event all else fails. I loathe win XP and will do anything not to install it. Thankfully, win7 is about 100 times less painful...
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