Help! : How to install disks raid0 2x500Go of a XPS8300 in a XPS8500 (raid0 not configured) without loss of data?

Hello world

My XPS8300 has recently crashed due to the lightning (food), and I had to return to my insurance company who me repaid. So I have a new Dell XPS8500.

I just kept the old XPS8300 two drives in raid0 because they were ok and I wanted to be able to recover my data.

So I wonder if I can insert these two drives in raid0 in place of the original disc in my new XPS8500 which are not actually configured raid0 without risk of data loss. I know that this raid0 configuration store data on two disks that depends on the configuration of the original controller. This configuration was made by Dell on my old XPS8300 and I don't have it anymore.

In order to access the drives of my XPS8500 and re-read my datas for more external copy, how can I get the exact settings for the configuration of the bios/raid0 in the XPS8500, probably the same as XPS8300?

Any response would be appreciated.

From what I see, the situation is this: you have a RAID 0 pair of hard drives of your computer that failed you believe still work.  Try to remember that Lightning does weird things to a computer, your drives maybe isn't as good as you think they are.  If they are still good, however, it is possible that they could work as a RAID 0 volume on your new XPS 8500.  Disks have RAID 0 metadata on them and the RAID controller on the 8500 XPS should be able to pick up. I don't think that the processors are very different between the two machines.

You might have trouble booting from disks, however.  8500 XPS BIOS is a bit different from that of the XPS 8300, and I think that it is running Windows 8.  This OS requires parameters not available on the XPS 8300 that have to do with the firmware UEFI is used instead of the legacy PC BIOS.  If you simply install the readers and try to start, some parameters of UEFI would make no sense to the Windows 7 operating system which is most likely present on your old RAID 0 pair of disks.  Even if the system boots to RAID 0, there are enough differences between the mothers of the two systems to facilitate the difficult operation.

If you still want to give it a go, I suggest that you keep the existing XPS 8500 system disk in place and plug the RAID 0 hard drives in the third and fourth SATA ports.  This will allow the RAID ROM show the RAID 0 volume as an extra disk and allow you to access the contents of this volume.  You may need to take possession of the folders and files on the RAID volume before you can copy, depending on the security settings you had on your XPS 8300.  In addition, you need to maybe change the SATA RAID controller setting and activate 3 and 4 SATA ports until readers discussed.  Older machines have sometimes RAID Autodetect/AHCI and an Auto setting to ports, but some of the newer computers are not.

You might want to try the RAID setting before going to the trouble to install readers.  The RAID setting uses the AHCI, but he's also looking for RAID metadata on the hard drives.  If the reader of the XPS 8500 system does not, you could get a boot failure.  In case that you need to reinstall your Windows 8 operating system in RAID mode if you always want to try to mount your RAID drives.

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