Hard Drive installations ????

[magwel]

Hi All,

I have just upgraded my motherboard from an Abit KR7A-RAID to an Asus A7N8X Deluxe.

On my old Motherboard I had the hard drives set up on a Stripping RAID (0) configuration. Now on the new board I don't have this option unless I have Serial ATA drives.

I have 2 questions...

1) How should I set up my Hard Drives?

2) Will I lose all my data by doing this switch?

Old Configuration:
Mobo: Abit KR7A-RAID
CPU: AMD XP 1700+
HDD: 2x 40Gb WD caviar 7200RPM 8MB cached in RAID 0 mode
OS: Windows XP pro

New Configuration:
Mobo: Asus A7N8X Deluxe.
CPU: AMD XP 2500+
HDD: 2x 40Gb WD caviar 7200RPM 8MB cached

Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

[Chuckiechan]

I think you need to copy your info to another hard drive or cd because your information is distributed between two hard drives in a special format. Since you are not able to use a RAID system, you cannot access the information that is in a RAID format on the two drives.

It may possible to "De-RAID" on your old computer, but wait for other member's help on this.

Good Luck...

[Omardeth]

well your going to have to do a clean install no matter if you use raid or not . so i would take all that you need off the hd's and put them on another hd or cd then install them in the new board and do a clean install .

also there are adapters you can get to hook your ide hd's to serial conntor if you like so you can use them on the serial conector with out going out and getting serial ata hd's

[magwel]

Chuckie and Omardeth Thanks for the response.

Omardeth,
I have considered the adapter option but I will to buy an adapter for each of my HDD. Figure the trouble and $ is not worth it. I will just have to live without my MP3s and AVI files.

I think I will just reformat and start from scratch.

Thanks again