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Hard Drives and RAID controller question

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Okay, this is a bit of a silly question, but I'm just being paranoid. I have 2 SATA seagate barracuda's plugged into the same RAID controller of my asus A8N motherboard, but they're not RAID striped, they're just set up as independent disks (JBOD). I just got a 3rd hard drive, which will be used for more backup storage. It's a SATA2 seagate barracuda, and it's plugged into the other RAID controller on the motherboard.

I want to take my copy of Vista RC1 for a test drive for a few days, so I plan on doing the following: Unplugging my 2 hard drives, leaving the 3rd the only disk connected, and installing vista on it. After playing around for a few days, I'd format it and reconnect all 3 disks. Would the 2 original disks still be recognized as per usual?

The only reason I'm being so paranoid is that I'm working some med school/grad school applications. I have backups of all my application info, but i'd lose about 2 precious days of application time if I had to reinstall from a backup. Thanks in advance for your help.
 
The original two drives should be unaffected. Though you might want to backup anything you really need prior to messing with your systems drives and controllers. Just as a precaution.
 
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