Moving Spanned Hard Drives

[greergang1997]

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]

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]

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.

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]

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]

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]

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