I have a software RAID 1 setup in an old system, using 2 SATA HDD's, but I'd like to move them to a non-RAID system (I don't have any other internal drives, hence why I want to use these two perfectly good drives as master/slave). From my understanding, because they are software RAID 1, it shouldn't be a problem taking them over to the new system, assigning one as the master, booting from it and simply reformatting the 2nd drive as a slave. Is this correct?
My new mobo doesn't have a built-in RAID controller, but I don't see that being a problem as it's software RAID, and theoretically when I install the new mobo drivers, it will hopefully just boot and recognize my drives? AFAIK, a mobo lacking a RAID controller will simply read a software RAID 1 drive like any old drive, obviously not recognizing it was RAIDed at all.
I plan on just trying this with 1 of the drives at first, getting into windows and then backing it up to an external 1Tb. Sadly the other comp died last week, after only 5hrs of use for the first time in 2 years (complicated/non-comp related story) so I didn't get time to back-up.
Ideally I'd just like to get 1 drive working at first, without data-loss, to give me enough time to back-up and then I'm not bothered about maybe reformatting it afterwards (If I remember where I put all the install cd's lol).
Should this pose any problems?
Thanks.
My new mobo doesn't have a built-in RAID controller, but I don't see that being a problem as it's software RAID, and theoretically when I install the new mobo drivers, it will hopefully just boot and recognize my drives? AFAIK, a mobo lacking a RAID controller will simply read a software RAID 1 drive like any old drive, obviously not recognizing it was RAIDed at all.
I plan on just trying this with 1 of the drives at first, getting into windows and then backing it up to an external 1Tb. Sadly the other comp died last week, after only 5hrs of use for the first time in 2 years (complicated/non-comp related story) so I didn't get time to back-up.
Ideally I'd just like to get 1 drive working at first, without data-loss, to give me enough time to back-up and then I'm not bothered about maybe reformatting it afterwards (If I remember where I put all the install cd's lol).
Should this pose any problems?
Thanks.