Upgrading Mobo's - lose raid ?

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Hi,

Im planning to upgrade my motherboard (and other components) but not my hard drives (currently have 2*1TB in Raid 1 (mirror)). To get this working on the new mobo will i need to break the raid, image the hard drive, setup raid on new mobo, format, reapply the image ?
 
It depends what you're upgrading from and to.

If you were upgrading from say X58 to Sandy Bridge the RAID might still be recognised.

If you were going from AMD to Intel, or vice versa, then no chance.

If the RAID array contains your operating system then you should probably be doing a clean installation anyway.

More details of your upgrade and what's on the array would be helpful.
 
You're just testing me now, I think you have a version of the Asus M3A78.

You'll have to start over.

Backup anything you want to keep from the current array.

Delete the array using your current PC.

Install the drives into the new PC.

Create a new RAID array using the Intel chipset.

Re-install Windows, drivers etc.

Copy back the data you backed up at the start.
 
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