Couple of nooby HDD questions

[Gas Panic!]

Hi guys,

I plan to upgrade to Vista next week, and my Harddrive situation is currently as follows:

1 x 160Gb w/ Windows XP
1 x 320Gb Data drive

The above 2 drives are connected directly to the SATA ports on the Mobo.

Then I have

1 x 320Gb Data drive (hardly anything on it)

which is connected to a SATA controller card in a PCI-E slot.

What I'd like to know is:

1) The 320Gb data drive currently connected to the Mobo... can I move that onto the PCI-E controller card without it destroying and/or formatting my drive?

2) Will the data drive be accessible from both XP and Vista?

Thanks for any help/advice.

 

[rpstewart]

1) The 320Gb data drive currently connected to the Mobo... can I move that onto the PCI-E controller card without it destroying and/or formatting my drive?

Yeah, should work fine if the card works in a non RAID mode, which I assume it does as you already have a single drive installed.

2) Will the data drive be accessible from both XP and Vista?

Again should be fine.

 

[Gas Panic!]

Yeah, the drive is in non-RAID mode.

Excellent, thanks for the help.