Multiple hard drive enclosure with esata?

[tronmaster]

I purchased a multiple hard drive enclosure which holds 4 sata hard drives. I enabled my JMicron raid setting in the bios and also installed the JMicron software from Asus' website. I formated all hard drives and I have installed files onto them.

So with the JMicron software in Windows Vista, it seems I can set these hard drives to a JBOD raid setting. I follow the steps, and it asks me which is the primary hard drive, the program states no data will be lost. However, the next step ask for a another hard drive from the list.

This part I am worried about, will all data be lost on 3 of the 4 hard drives while it sets it to a JBOD configuration? The reason why I want to do this is because I have another computer without an esata connection, I was going to use an ESATA to USB 2.0 converter, however, the computer with Windows Vista 32-bit with no esata only recognizes 1 hard drive (the primary) and the other 3 don't show up at all.

Or do I just need to get a ESATA PCI-E controller card for the Esata-less computer?

Thanks for your help.

 

[nitrobass24]

spend the $20.00 on the esata card. newegg.com you can find one with the raid functions and interface you want for just about any price range. This will save you a lot of headaches(esata-usb converters suck). You will also see a huge performance jump. As far as the losing data on your array im not sure.
What enclosure is it?
Your mobo may not support RAID over USB.
The best advice would be to get the esata card for sure.