I had a 680i SLi motherboard with my operating system, Vista x64 on a RAID 0 setup through the nVidia RAID setup on the board. The motherboard just died. Is my OS install dead too? Is it possible to hook up the two hard drives to a new motherboard and have everything still work? Or am I asking for a miracle here?
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OS on RAID 0 + changing mobo's = screwed?
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Your asking for a miracle
If you get the same board/chipset it might be recognized but I wouldn't count on it.
If you get the same board/chipset it might be recognized but I wouldn't count on it.
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I'm a little more optomistic.
If you stay with the same chipset and the drives didn't get corrupted, I vote 50/50.
If you stay with the same chipset and the drives didn't get corrupted, I vote 50/50.
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May or may not be helpful:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/RAID-MIGRATION-ADVENTURE,1640.html
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/RAID-MIGRATION-ADVENTURE,1640.html
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[LYL]Homer;1033456651 said:May or may not be helpful:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/RAID-MIGRATION-ADVENTURE,1640.html
Good information
If it was just your OS install that was on raid 0 and not your data...Then IMO I think it would be easier/faster to just do a reinstall...this also allows you to upgrade your board.
ok, next question. If I get a new motherboard, and reinstall the OS, can I reload all my settings from a backup I made just before the mobo died? I had Vista 64 originally installed on the RAID 0 setup of 2x 80 GB hard drives, but then I made an image of that on another hard drive as backup. So if I reinstall the OS, can I just go back to my backup image and get it back to what I had before? Like all the games I had installed and my settings and such?
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Your going to want to do everything...if you try to copy your games over from the backup it wont have the registry settings for them and wont work....you could try importing those registry entries but I do not recommend that.
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but then I made an image of that on another hard drive as backup.
What program?
This is exactly what Acronis will do on a single system drive but I've never used anything for a RAID set-up.
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What program?
This is exactly what Acronis will do on a single system drive but I've never used anything for a RAID set-up.
Ive restored a backup to a raid volume and it works great...but It was to the same raid setup...same drives same controller.