Computer problem help please!!!

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spartikus

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Hello everyone here is a problem my friend and I are having with his computer. He has a 2 year old computer from cyberpowerpc.com and just the other day it completely stopped working, we think its his mobo it may have gotten fried. what we are going to do now is build a new computer but he wants to salvage his data off his old computer's hard drives. the problem is he is running a raid config on those hard drives and its for performance not a mirror type raid so we are wondering how can we get the data off the two hard drives. can we just install them into the new computer and will they work if we do?
 
hey verve i am wondering will we need to set up the new computer in raid or can we just plug the old hard drives in and go from there?
 
a little hard to understand, but basically as long as the drives are working correctly they should work if you try to boot with them OR if you plug them in as secondary drives.
 
what i was trying to say is that the two hard drives that we are using were used in a raid set up and so the data on them is parceled out between the two. when we plug them in will they work and allow us to access the info on them or will they need to be set up again in a raid config prior to accessing the info, sorry i know this is pretty hard to understand.
 
I am building a new computer from ground up, with vista (previously i used xp). including a new hard drive. my old computer died. I want to get info off of as well as posibly install 1 of the old hard drive out of my raid config. I can't access anything off them now, I plan or would like to install them-get them going and save info on to single hard drive(the new drive i purchased). will i have a problem with the vista where previously i used xp, and how do i go about instally the drives? 2 drives set up as raid, and single hard drive? (sata performance raid).
 
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I take it the old PC was RAID 0 (performance)?
Unless you can find the exact controller or motherboard as the old RAID 0 PC, the data is gone.
No matter what other PC you connect the RAID 0 drives to, the PC will want to create a partition and format the drives. If you do that, the data will be lost.
RAID 0 PCs need to be backed up consistently. If it wasn't done, then the data is lost.
You can use the drives on another PC, either as separate drives, or as another RAID setup. Either way the drives will loose the original data.

Sorry for the bad news.
 
Really so the data is really gone? that sucks I am thinking Raid 0 is defintely not worth it unless you back up the system constantly.
 
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