How to setup RAID 5 after Mobo replacement

[Handil]

Greetings all,

I have an old Dell XPS 600. It had 3 HDD configured in RAID5. A few days ago, the motherboard stopped working and after taking it apart I can see where a couple capacitors are burnt up. I am planning on buying a replacement motherboard, but am afraid that once I install the new board I might damage the data on the drives if I don't set the RAID back up properly. Can anyone give me an idea of how I should go about getting this thing setup correctly? If I remember correctly, the whole thing was configured through the on-board RAID controller.

 

[Pyree]

This topic has been moved from the section Windows 7 to section Storage by Pyree

 

[FireWire2]

I hope you have a back up.

If there is no back up and your data is important... Get another Dell XPS 600.

This is one of the reason I recommend my clients do not use the on board raid

 

[Handil]

I actually have another XPS 600 MB coming in the mail. I should have been more specific. My question is, with an identical MB, is there anything I need to make sure to do to get the RAID going again? I noted which sata ports each drive was plugged into.. anything bios side needs done aside from setting the new BIOS to raid 5?

 

[kitsunestarwind]

make sure the drives are connected to the correct ports they came out of on the old board
and make sure the BIOS is set to RAID/Autodetect ( i think its that for the raid mode in dells or something) the same as your old board and you should be good.

I would set the mode in the bios prior to installing the drives as well

 

[Handil]

make sure the drives are connected to the correct ports they came out of on the old board
and make sure the BIOS is set to RAID/Autodetect ( i think its that for the raid mode in dells or something) the same as your old board and you should be good.

I would set the mode in the bios prior to installing the drives as well

Thanks for the reply! I'll let you know how it turns out... **crosses fingers**

 

[Handil]

Worked like a charm, thanks for the responses!