recovering data from a HEALTHY raid

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Makave7i Tha Don

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So here's my situation. I had a system I built with dual raptors in a RAID, on an a8n32 sli deluxe motherboard years ago. I used the nvidia raid configuration on the motherboard. The RAID itself is still healthy and all my data is still on it, but the motherboard took a crap on me.

I've now built a brand new system, but I need a way to get some of my stuff off of that healthy nvidia raid configuration. Would I need to find someone with another a8n32sli deluxe motherboard to make it the raid work again so that I can get the stuff? Or...anybody have any other brilliant ideas?
 
I wonder if dmraid on linux would work. It is what is used to access the fake raid like on nvidia motherboards (turns the /dev/sdX devices into the raid devices /dev/mapper/nvidiaXXXX). AFAIK its all open source and wouldn't actually require motherboard support but I am not 100% sure about that.
 
RAID 1 or 0? Would a drive from a RAID 1 array be readable in another system by itself?
 
Makave7i Tha Don said:
So here's my situation. I had a system I built with dual raptors in a RAID, on an a8n32 sli deluxe motherboard years ago. I used the nvidia raid configuration on the motherboard. The RAID itself is still healthy and all my data is still on it, but the motherboard took a crap on me.

I've now built a brand new system, but I need a way to get some of my stuff off of that healthy nvidia raid configuration. Would I need to find someone with another a8n32sli deluxe motherboard to make it the raid work again so that I can get the stuff? Or...anybody have any other brilliant ideas?
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In short, no it would not work in your new system. You need to find either that same mobo, or one with the same NVRAID chipset to extract the data.
 
If i found a mobo with that same nvraid setup, could i boot into dos and copy the my documents folder to a usb drive or something?

My buddy has a8n sli deluxe, which has the same nvidia raid on it
 
I do not think dos would work (no dos driver for your fake raid) however, you could boot into a linux livecd and copy your files. If you have no linux experience I recommend picking up a ubuntu livecd.
 
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