SATA & RAID installations

[Ron O'Brien]

My Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit PC originally had two 80gig SATA drives
configured as RAID0.
I replaced those drives with 2x 250gig SATA's also configured as RAID0.

Now I discover that I left an important folder I now need on the original
80gig drives.

I've tried putting one of the drives in an enclosure, but it can't be read
like that. If I put those drives back into the PC will everything boot
correctly - as if I never replaced them - or am I going to be hit by the
RAID setup screen that will end up wiping the array - as happened to me in
the earlier days of my RAID experience on Win XP

 

[David B.]

You don't have a full understanding of RAID, you cannot read data from a
single drive that was part of a stripped (raid 0) set, both drives must be
in their array to read data from them. You'll have to put them back on the
controller, set the drives up the same way they were originally and hope for
the best.

 

[DL]

Which is why data backups are important

You don't have a full understanding of RAID, you cannot read data from a
single drive that was part of a stripped (raid 0) set, both drives must be
in their array to read data from them. You'll have to put them back on the
controller, set the drives up the same way they were originally and hope
for the best.

 

[Ron O'Brien]

You don't have a full understanding of RAID, you cannot read data from a
single drive that was part of a stripped (raid 0) set, both drives must be
in their array to read data from them. You'll have to put them back on the
controller, set the drives up the same way they were originally and hope
for the best.

--

Yes, I was aware that one drive in an enclosure couldn't be read. I perhaps
shouldn't have mentioned I'd tried it.

My real issue is whether or not taking the new drives out and just
re-attaching the old (original) drives (exactly as they were before) would
work.

Ron

 

[David B.]

Providing they are set up in the same config (drive 0, drive 1) it will
likely work as long as the drives haven't been altered since you removed
them.

 

[b310591]

My Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit PC originally had two 80gig SATA drives
configured as RAID0.
I replaced those drives with 2x 250gig SATA's also configured as RAID0.

Now I discover that I left an important folder I now need on the original
80gig drives.

I've tried putting one of the drives in an enclosure, but it can't be read
like that. If I put those drives back into the PC will everything boot
correctly - as if I never replaced them - or am I going to be hit by the
RAID setup screen that will end up wiping the array - as happened to me in
the earlier days of my RAID experience on Win XP