Transplanting a RAID 0 between systems?

jrsteensen

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My 2yo decided to dump a bottle of water on my GS70, and went undetected until after I made it home from work. I detail stripped it, and got everything out, gently dried, and put everything into rice for 3 days. There was some corrosion near the power tap on the mobo, and she's dead, jim. I saved the dual mSATA SSD RAiD 0s and SATA HD. In the middle of building a decent desktop, and looks like I have my new HDs for the build. I found no evidence of water infiltration around the HDs. Hardware wise, I'll order a few bracks, two mSATA to SATA adapters, and be golden, but I have no idea how to install the RAID 0 array software side, and hopefully be able to recover the data before booting from it.
 
while you ideally should have had backups running all along, if you transplant these into an intel build the intel controller (in raid mode) should pick up the existing raid array just fine but this does not mean it will be bootable or wont crash due to the two systems running different drivers but yo stand a good chance of it being able to work around these issues.

If these drives have valuable data like family pics, then I suggest you make images of them drives onto externals just in case something goes wrong.
 


You are absolutely correct, I should have. I was dumb (on multiple levels). How would one image a homeless RAID 0 array however? I am not horribly proficient in RAID arrays, and this is my first learning experience with them.
 

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