Can I move a RAID-1 logical disk from one Windows XP installation to another?

Question

During a flight of frustration, I rashly re-installed a fresh copy of Windows XP without any preparation (I did a 'new installation' instead of the 'upgrade' installation--which is what I should have done). I already posted a question about how I can get back into the user account directory for my old account (still hoping for a positive answer). My more serious problem however, is that the RAID-1 array I had is no longer recognized as a formatted disk. It is present as one logical disk, but the Windows disk manager says it is unallocated (unpartitioned). Repartitioning and reformatting is out of the question because I have data on there that is irreplaceable. I don't understand why Windows doesn't recognize it since I didn't do anything to it. Any ideas about what I can do?

No, I guess I didn't explain that well. The RAID-1 set was acting as a third logical disk. It was not my C: drive. As far as I know, there was *nothing* written to that disk during the Windows XP install. Even if I had tried to, it's a hardware RAID set. It should have been recognized as a single disk the entire time (i.e., there was no time at which the RAID set would have been broken).

Answer 1

RAID-1 consists of two "mirrored" disks.

Since it looks like you may have reinstalled XP on one of the RAID-1 disks, you have 'broken' the RAID array. You need to reload your RAID drivers and try to rebuild the RAID array.

Am not really sure how this will work with your new install

Answer 2

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