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Raid Question HIGHPOINT!

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I have a HighPoint ROCKETRAID2220 PCI-X SATA II and its setup in RAID 5 . My Operating System is set up on another HD that is connected directly to the mobo. I have windows XP as my operating system and was wanting to upgrade it to windows 2003 server.

Is it possible to keep the data intact on the raid card and have the OS HD formated and reinstalled with the new OS. Then just install the driver for the raid card in windows so I can detect it and utilize it?
 
Yes. Assuming you actually setup the raid array on the card, as far as windows is concerned its just another hard drive.
 
Thanks, and yes I did set it up through the web gui the card had.

When I added drives to the array in the past I would have to combine the unpartitioned space with the free space on the array partition. In disk management will I have to use diskpart to combine the drives or will windows see one unified drive that I just initialize?
 
If you are expanding the array, as far as windows is concerned its a hdd with free space after the first partition. How you expand the partition is up to you. (Hence my reasoning for going XFS on Linux, expansion is easy and going past 2TB is a non-issue)
 
I've got (2) 2220's in my server. The data on the RAID card will remain intact when you reinstall windows on a seperate drive. Once you have Server2k3 installed download the highpoint driver and install. You'll then have to go into disk management and assign a drive letter to your array.

If you are also adding additional drives to your array, once you use the online capacity expansion feature, you'll then have to either add the free space to the existing partition or create a new partition. There are a few good apps I have used in the past that expand the partition, but I can't think of any of the top of my head.
 
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