New mobo, RAID question

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Buddy of mine has a RAID 0 with 2 74GB Raptors on his old 939 DFI SLI-DR board. He is purchasing an ASUS P5K Deluxe and a Q6600 to replace it, and we where wondering if we would need to redo the RAID with the new board, and do a clean install of windows? Or is there a way around doing that? Im pretty sure you need to start fresh when you switch RAID controllers, but he seems to think otherwise. Hes usually wrong. :D
 
Doing a clean install would be best, you probably could get away with say imaging the drive and restoring it, or similiar, but the new mobo's drivers will go apeshit when the new OS boots. Clean install is the best method.
 
You'll definitely need to start fresh with the RAID array. With that big of a change in hardware you should also want to reinstall Windows. The only way you could even come close to using the installation of Windows that you have would be to run a Windows Repair from the disc which will set most of the system settings back to default anyway.
 
it is very doubtful that the RAID controller on the new board will even be able to see the array written ffrom the old RAID controller. This particular situation is a big reason many people get standalone controllers. That being said, when doing major platform changes like this, it's always a good idea to reload your boot partition. In this case, the only thing that a standlone RAID controller would buy you is if you had a separate partition for file archving, when that partition would be left alone, and you'd just have to wipe the boot partition and reload the OS.
 
It will be easier to do a clean install and restore data from a backup, then it will be to try and transfer the array to the new board. Sometimes just because things can be done, doesn't mean that they should be done or are the best practice.
 
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