WHS - Reinstalling OS and existing hard drives

[Time2Kill]

I just had a powersupply take out the motherboard and a few other components on my WHS server. I've tried Google for my question, but it seems to be too broad and I haven't found an answer yet. Anyways, all of my hard drives (12 of them) somehow managed to survive, can I put together a new system, reinstall WHS on a new system drive, and will it recognize all of my old hard drives in the pool if I plug them in? I always assumed that I would have to reformat each hard drive and add them to the pool and move all the data back onto them. Any help would be appreciated!

[criccio]

If the origianl OS is still intact, what is stopping you from just replacing the blown hardware and just booting as normal?

OTOH, if there is a problem, put in the WHS install disk and you can run a recovery install that will reinstall the OS leaving all the data/shares intact.

[Time2Kill]

I've been thinking about upgrading the OS drive to a faster 500gb disk (currently an old 160gb) as I'm constantly moving 50+gigs of data at a time to/from the server. So this is a perfect excuse to replace the harddrive and upgrade some of the hardware that was in it.

[nitrobass24]

Yes you can

What you will need to do is get your new box setup and you will need to do a reinstall. There is an option for New Installation and Reinstall. Choose reinstall and it will recognize your pool.