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Can I migrate RAID from XP to Vista?

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imhotep531   08-01-2008 at 02:32:52 PM

I have some questions about switching to Vista on a machine with multiple RAID arrays. Currently I have two arrays on my home PC:

Bootable - two 80gb SATA/3 drives setup as RAID 1using an nVidia controller.
Nonbootable storage - two 500gb SATA/3 drives setup as RAID 1 using same nVidia controller

At present I'm running XP Home but I plan on switching to Vista soon. Here are my questions:

1. If I purchase a Vista upgrade rather than the full install, would this work on my bootable RAID 1?

2. Would I need to do anything at all to the nonbootable storage RAID 1?

Thanks for your help,
Curt

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rozar   08-01-2008 at 04:15:24 PM
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First thing to do is power off the machine and disconnect the 500gb drives during this upgrade so no mistakes are made.

Remember that a RAID controller does not care what OS or files run on its volumes and an OS does not care what the volume its being loaded on is made up of. So it could be a single drive or a 10 drive array, the OS does not care as long as the volume you are trying to load the OS on is not too large (2TB limitation) or is not physically damaged. With that said you would have the same experience upgrading XP to Vista on a RAID array as you would with a single drive. To the OS they are just volumes.

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halcyon   08-01-2008 at 04:42:38 PM
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^ +1 Nicely put, Rozar.

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