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thebliX

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Ok I know this should be in the mass storage section or whatever but I need help quickly. My friend has a raid setup that he keeps all his gamees and backups and stuff on. He will be formating his c drive (not part of the raid) and is afraid he might lose the information on the raid setup. So I need 2 questions answered. 1. Will he lose any data from the raid setup by formating his c: drive? 2. (he did not setup the raid stuff) WIll he need to do anything to access all the stuff on the raid or will it just be there ready for use?

Thanks for your time.
 
Ok from what you are writing i'm assuming you have a HD hooked up to a regular IDE then your RAID drives on their respective channels.

If this is the case the RAID controller has its own bios, where the RAID is configured and setup. As long as he does indeed format his primary drive THAT IS NOT ATTACHED TO THE RAID CONTROLLER all should be well.

I would double check the bios, and cabling to make sure this is indeed the setup at hand.

BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING always double check your setup, to make sure what you think is true :)

I've bombed enough drives by THINKING I knew how it was setup ;)

oh and he'll prolly have to reinstall any software that ran on the machine from the raid, since your knocking out your primary install.
 
Ok, his main drive is an IDE drive, and his RAID setup is SATA. So im guessing they have there own channels but if you can reply and confirm that would be awesome.
 
Yes IDE and SATA have to be on seperate channels.

So your IDE C: can be formatted with no affect other than having to reinstall some proggies maybe. The data, and the raid will be intact.
 
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