How to read a raid 1 disk on another computer

Hello,

yes to recover the RAID1 it should be ok to just plug the raid disk on another windows PC. Data is mirrored so no matter which of the two drives you choose.

Thanks

Marco

Hi Marco, We tried plugging it but it was not detected. In the disk management it says convert to dynamic disk. Anything I missed? Thanks!

Hello,

 

Drives and data are not independent of the controller. Whether the control of a RAID array is software or hardware, each RAID controller manufacturer appears to have its own capability and it is not common for a set of drives on a controller to be available with another controller. Therefore, if you try to use it on a completely different device, you may have problems. I thought some motherboards and RAID controllers couldn't read one of the drives in the RAID 1 array on another device because they couldn't recognize some of the partition table data to understand the drive. But if the other machine you are trying has the same PERC S110 motherboard, I think it can read. Previously, the drive of a RAID 1 structure can be read standalone, but I don't think it will happen on every machine. Sure it can still be tried.

 

Dynamic Disk structure is used for RAID structures used in Windows as far as I know. But if you convert the disk you inserted to Dynamic structure, the data in it may be lost. So Check if there is any way to convert to dynamic structure without losing data. Actually, if the disks in the previous RAID 1 structure were used in Windows, I would expect them to be in Dynamic Disk structure. It would be very helpful if someone from the community has expreince. 

 

I would like to remind you that such methods you will try on systems that don't have backups may cause data loss.