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Hi everyone,

i had 4x1TB drives set as a RAID10 volume in my ASUS MB's intel BIOS (ICH9R). Also set up in Win7 matrix storage manager.

then i detached the 4x1TB drives and attached 2 new 2TB drives.

only then i deleted the "old" RAID in Intel BIOS and defined a new RAID1 for the 2 new 2TB drives.

My question is wheter i can re-attach my "old" RAID and directly access my files without doing a complete recovery.

I might have saved an earlier state of the whole BIOS to a preset in bios setup. Does that help?

many thanks
Joe

It should be ok if you reconnect all your disks. If the BIOS does not detect the correct configuration, you have two possibilities:
- boot from a Linux cdrom/dvd, use the program "fakeraid" to detect the Raid parameters and mount your partitions
- or in the BIOS setup, restore exactly the old parameters

so, i re-attached the 4x 1tb drives in the same order and BIOS recognized them .

thx cgrenier