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Katabatic[H]
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Gurus,
I've been running a nForce (A8N SLI Premium) based computer for a while. Ironically, this weekend, while shopping Newegg for a replacement, it died. (As in, it won't boot - Wierdest thing I've ever seen. It won't ever start booting the hard drive or CD-ROM. Sometimes, it freezes when trying to post/list the hardware in the computer. I suspect the BIOS but I can't explain why it would be corrupt all of a sudden...)
Anyway, I have a pair of Maxtor 500GB HD in Raid 1 using the nForce 4 controller - These are not the boot drive for WinXP - Only serve as a My Documents storage. I've backed these up with Mozy as well (and from about a month ago, an external HD as well).
Now, the question is, can I just take one of these raid hard drives, put it in a new computer and read the data off of it (copy the data) to a new hard drive? Or will the RAID 1 "meta-information" prevent this? It would save hours of downloading from Mozy if I could do this. I've searched the forums and can't quite find this mentioned before.
Thanks.
I've been running a nForce (A8N SLI Premium) based computer for a while. Ironically, this weekend, while shopping Newegg for a replacement, it died. (As in, it won't boot - Wierdest thing I've ever seen. It won't ever start booting the hard drive or CD-ROM. Sometimes, it freezes when trying to post/list the hardware in the computer. I suspect the BIOS but I can't explain why it would be corrupt all of a sudden...)
Anyway, I have a pair of Maxtor 500GB HD in Raid 1 using the nForce 4 controller - These are not the boot drive for WinXP - Only serve as a My Documents storage. I've backed these up with Mozy as well (and from about a month ago, an external HD as well).
Now, the question is, can I just take one of these raid hard drives, put it in a new computer and read the data off of it (copy the data) to a new hard drive? Or will the RAID 1 "meta-information" prevent this? It would save hours of downloading from Mozy if I could do this. I've searched the forums and can't quite find this mentioned before.
Thanks.