Moving Spanned Hard Drives

greergang1997 · May 23, 2018

My CPU and Motherboard died, and I just bought a new Motherboard and CPU. Will my 3 hard drives with a spanned partition work with my new CPU and Motherboard? I assume so, since windows is on the hard drives. Thoughts? If it won't work, how do I get the files off?

OLD config was a dell mobo with xeon E3-1225 V2 CPU
NEW config is R3 1200 with Asus ROG Strix B350-F Gaming

kanewolf · May 23, 2018

Unknown, A Dell workstation motherboard may have had a hardware RAID controller that created the volume. Or they could have been created as a Windows volume. Either way, they probably WON'T boot on a Ryzen host. You will have to get windows functional on the new build then hope you can get the other disks to be read. This is where backups are important.

greergang1997 · May 23, 2018

kanewolf :

I used the mobo and made a build from spare parts. I created the spanned partition myself in disk manager. So, no hope? Windows is on a separate drive without any modifications.

kanewolf · May 23, 2018

Unknown. Since it is a windows spanned volume you have a chance. As I said, you need to do a clean OS install for the Ryzen build to get a stable Windows environment. Then see if you can get to your data. Again, backups are what should have covered this case ...

RolandJS · May 23, 2018

I'm purely guessing here -- R-Studio boasts on their web site that their network R-Studio has power to help with RAID's dasta recovery. Since I have never done anything like RAID, I do not know what R-Studio Network can and cannot do as to RAID.

kanewolf · May 23, 2018

A spanned volume is better than a striped volume. The data should be contiguous on the drive. It is not spread across all three.

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