Question about moving a two Mirrored Drives

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jarlaxlecq

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I have an old PC with two 320g drives that are mirrored together in Raid 1. I want to move those drives to my new PC, how do i go abouts moving them? is it as simple as moving them over and plugging them in? do i plug them in and they are individually recognized as two drives with identical info? Never tried this before and i dont want to lose whats on them

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Are you trying to use the same RAID setup with these two disks on the new motherboard or are you just wanting to use the drives separately as individual drives?
 
i want to keep them mirrored together but i want to go it on my new PC which has a different MB then my old one.

moving from a P4C800-E to a P5Q Pro
 
Are you trying to move a fakeraid mirror from one motherboard to another? This probably won't work unless they are using the same controller (and likely with the same ROM version).
 
jarlaxlecq said:
i want to keep them mirrored together but i want to go it on my new PC which has a different MB then my old one.

moving from a P4C800-E to a P5Q Pro
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Are they on the Promise controller? If so, you may be out of luck. Break the mirror, put the disk in the new box and copy over network, then make a mirror on that end. Or back up and restore.
 
Your best bet is to do a backup and restore. This will be just as fast if not faster and will not create a bunch of headaches.
 
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