Existing RAID 0 onto new controller. Possible?

[Danners]

Hi,

Basically, I have a mobo with 2xsata connectors, which I had 2x120gb drives on raid 0.

I am installing 2x500gb drives on raid 0 as a replacement, but want to be able to copy the data from the old 2 disks, so I bought a pci controller as a temporary basis so I can have all 4 disks installed, but I obviously want the 2 news disks on the on board sata controller.

Will I be able to just connect up the 2 old disks onto the new controller and it will just recognise the striped array or will it want to reset it all and I'll lose all my data?

Thanks a lot.

 

[Danners]

cheers for that, I reckon that probably would work.

Just realised I posted this in the wrong forum, meant it to be in hard disks

I've formatted the 2x500gb drives and set them up as raid 0, and finished installing windows on them now.

I also had a 180gb IDE drive with my music on in too.

So at this stage I've had this idea:

1.put the IDE drive in, and copy the 180gb over to one of the partitions of the 2x500gb array

2.put the old 2x120gb array back in, and copy data across to the 180gb IDE.

3.put the new array in and copy the data on the IDE disk onto the new array.

-Repeat steps until done.

 

[Danners]

It's taken nearly 12 hours to copy 160gb from my old array onto the IDE disk and back onto the new one.

Painful experience...