As part of upgrading motherboard, I am going to install x64 WindowsXp.
On the previous system I had two SATA disks and they were being used
as regular disk(means there was no RAID) and I have lot of data on
those disks.

Before upgrading motherboard I would like to know whether will I be
able to retrieve the data that is already stored on the SATA drives?

Essentially I would like to know whether the data stored on the NON-
RAIDED SATA drives bound to Motherboard and its chipset.


Thanks
Ramesh

As long as the new system supports SATA drives, you can plug the drives in
and should be able to access your data.

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> As part of upgrading motherboard, I am going to install x64 WindowsXp.
> On the previous system I had two SATA disks and they were being used
> as regular disk(means there was no RAID) and I have lot of data on
> those disks.
>
> Before upgrading motherboard I would like to know whether will I be
> able to retrieve the data that is already stored on the SATA drives?
>
> Essentially I would like to know whether the data stored on the NON-
> RAIDED SATA drives bound to Motherboard and its chipset.
>
>
> Thanks
> Ramesh
>

<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> As part of upgrading motherboard, I am going to install x64 WindowsXp.
> On the previous system I had two SATA disks and they were being used
> as regular disk(means there was no RAID) and I have lot of data on
> those disks.
>
> Before upgrading motherboard I would like to know whether will I be
> able to retrieve the data that is already stored on the SATA drives?
>
> Essentially I would like to know whether the data stored on the NON-
> RAIDED SATA drives bound to Motherboard and its chipset.

No, it isn't. You can move the drive, attach it to an external case for
recovery on another system, etc. I do this regularly.

However, it's entirely possible that you WILL need to do a repair install if
the board is different enough. It's been pointed out here that the key
element of this is the drive controller.

HTH
-pk

>
>
> Thanks
> Ramesh
>