SATA Raid 1 to SATA

[Ken]

I have a one drive (320 Gig) Raid 1 setup on the P4PE MB's Promise SATA
controller. I really did not want Raid in the first place but it was the
only way I could get SATA capability without having to buy another
controller. I plan to upgrade to a P5P800 board. The P5P800 has SATA
capability but no Raid controller. Will I have to rebuild all the
partitions on the hard drive or do I get lucky since it is a one drive Raid
setup? If I have to rebuild, will I have a problem with the non-Raid
controller on the P5P800 MB recognizing the drive so that a DOS boot version
of Partition Magic can do its thing?

Also, WinXP SP2 is finally running on the P4PE with no apparent problems
thanks to Adobe Reader 7.0, etc.,etc. Is there any way I can use/trick the
existing WinXP system (reloaded from a Ghost backup if necessary) and just
modify the drivers for the new MB? I had to ask!

 

[Ben Pope]

I have a one drive (320 Gig) Raid 1 setup

Impossible. RAID 1 means a copy of the same data on 2 drives.

Ben

 

[KLH]

Impossible. RAID 1 means a copy of the same data on 2 drives.

Ben

It is not impossible if you use ghost to make images of the partitions
as he suggests he is planning and restore them after the change.

 

[KLH]

It is not impossible if you use ghost to make images of the partitions
as he suggests he is planning and restore them after the change.

I meant to add that I think he is confused about have a raid setup on
one drive.

 

[Mercury]

either that or it is 2 x 160's as raid 0.

OP:

Please post more precise details of your config.

 

[Ken]

I may be confused about Raid 0 or Raid 1 but I set the system up using the
Promise Raid Controller on the P4PE MB with ONE drive and it (the Promise
Controller) configured it as a one drive Raid Array. My real question was
has did the controller set something up on the drive that will make it
impossible to get at the data in the partitions using a MB with standard
SATA controller?!! I'm pretty sure the answer is no and I'll find out for
myself shortly.

 

[Ken]

Much to my surprise the SATA controller on the P5P800 was able to read the
drive that was configured as a Raid Array of 1 on the P4PE MB. I guess the
Promise controller must treat the drive as "Non-Raid" in that configuration?
It did not do me any good however, since I have to reinstall WinXP anyway.

 

[Triffid]

Much to my surprise the SATA controller on the P5P800 was able to read the
drive that was configured as a Raid Array of 1 on the P4PE MB. I guess the
Promise controller must treat the drive as "Non-Raid" in that configuration?
It did not do me any good however, since I have to reinstall WinXP anyway.

RAID = Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks

As Ben said, if you only have one disk, you cannot possibly have RAID.