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I have 2 1TB drives that I set up in RAID0. Unfortunately, my old system is in pretty crappy shape and I might not be able to boot onto it. This means that the motherboard and old RAID controller are not available.

I can set up a RAID0 on the new system, but it's prompting me to create a new RAID. Will this erase/format the disks, or will it just set up the RAID and leave any existing data on the disks? This is extremely important because I have about 1.5TB of data on these disks that I absolutely cannot lose, and want to transfer onto a new 2TB disk.

qJake
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It's been my experience that the only way you can successfully migrate disks to a different hardware raid controller is if the new controller has the identical hardware and firmware revs as the old controller.

In your case, without knowing the raid controller you are using, it's all guesswork whether the new RAID0 config will leave your data intact. Personally, there's no way I would do it without first making a disk image (Ghost, Partition Magic or the like) of both disks. RAID0 might have a better chance than 1 or 5. Even then, you're most likely doomed.

Sorry to not have a happier answer.

Kean
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