yoy2421

I had a couple of hard drives in raid 0 attached to a ASRock Mobo. I recently upgraded my mobo to a ASUS, and I booted it up for the first time and it gives me a disk read error. My theory is the raid controller on my new mobo is different from the old one, so it doesn't know how to read my hard drives, and thus cannot boot to windows.

Really I just need to copy a few old files from my hard drives to a CD and then I can reformat with no problem. But since I can't boot my computer into windows, what do I do?!

holdenssx

You could always hook up the old MOBO, unless its broken

yoy2421

Yes good point. I should have mentioned I set it up so that my old mobo is running on my floor with my old PSU. Unfortunately when I turn it on, it detects the raid, it says its functional, but keeps restarting when right before it boots up windows., even if I try to start it in safe mode. So I cant get into windows.

The only thing I can think of is trying to repair windows, but I believe if I do that I need the raid drivers, but I can't get those because I dont have any more computers to use!!! >:0

I think this is just another in a long line of examples of how universal raid controllers is a good idea!

You would think that the new mobo would be backwards compatible with the old one since they are both ASUS, but I guess not.

Cromewell

Generally moving RAID arrays to a new system without recreating them is a bad idea.

If you have a liveCD try that, if the array is readable it should be able to read the stuff you want and let you copy it to a flash drive or whatever.

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yoy2421

which liveCD would you recommend for this? and are you sure it would be able to detect my raid array? but i couldn't copy my stuff onto a DVD, I need a 1gb flash card or whatever, right?

Cromewell

Any that can read an NTFS partition should be fine. If you have access to another computer you could network them and transfer that way. I don't remember if any of them could burn CDs/DVDs, someone with more experience usnig them could probably tell you.

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