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I'm changing out my Asus K8V motherboard to a Asus A8N-E motherboard. I have
already have sata drivers installed on my old motherboard. My question is
will I lose my data on these drives when I change the motherboard out. These
motherboard have different chipsets.

Usually not. You don't say if you are using RAID. I know with SATA and
motherboards, sometimes you will get a format not recognized in disk
management, if you can get booted, and may get it resolved by plugging into
different SATA connectors on the MOBO. I have had it come back to
recognised on several occasions even plugging into the same connector.
Seems to be much more touchy that way than IDE.


"Allen" <> wrote in message
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> I'm changing out my Asus K8V motherboard to a Asus A8N-E motherboard. I
> have
> already have sata drivers installed on my old motherboard. My question is
> will I lose my data on these drives when I change the motherboard out.
> These
> motherboard have different chipsets.

I've seen SATA drives behave as if there was no data on them just by
switching SATA channels on the mainboard. Don't know if I was doing
anything wrong or what. I'd expect to be leery, at least. Do a backup to a
USB2 or Firewire external HDD to be safe and sure...

"Allen" <> wrote in message
newsB96FE51-EE0C-490B-88EE-...
> I'm changing out my Asus K8V motherboard to a Asus A8N-E motherboard. I
> have
> already have sata drivers installed on my old motherboard. My question is
> will I lose my data on these drives when I change the motherboard out.
> These
> motherboard have different chipsets.

I have had the problem with that also. I have an external IDE that connects
with either 1394 or USB and have had the identical problem.


"M. Murcek" <> wrote in message
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> I've seen SATA drives behave as if there was no data on them just by
> switching SATA channels on the mainboard. Don't know if I was doing
> anything wrong or what. I'd expect to be leery, at least. Do a backup to
> a USB2 or Firewire external HDD to be safe and sure...
>
> "Allen" <> wrote in message
> newsB96FE51-EE0C-490B-88EE-...
>> I'm changing out my Asus K8V motherboard to a Asus A8N-E motherboard. I
>> have
>> already have sata drivers installed on my old motherboard. My question is
>> will I lose my data on these drives when I change the motherboard out.
>> These
>> motherboard have different chipsets.
>
>

Yeah, I'm too busy just keeping up with work to do any reading about why
SATA behaves differently from PATA in this regard. I've never seen the data
loss thing happen with a PATA drive ever. I routinely use WD's
DataLifeguard and Maxtor's MaxBlast products to move a partition from a
smaller boot drive to a bigger new drive, take the small drive out, move the
big one to ATA channel 0 and reboot. It would truly suck to be unable in
the future to do that. I wonder if the SATA channel that initializes the
drive somehow "brands" the MBR or something, but that's strictly a guess on
my part. I rely on moving data around in external USB2 and Firewire drives,
so I guess I better hoard some big PATA disks to keep those Ultra enclosures
running...

"John Barnes" <> wrote in message
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>I have had the problem with that also. I have an external IDE that
>connects with either 1394 or USB and have had the identical problem.
>
>
> "M. Murcek" <> wrote in message
> news:eKQ$...
>> I've seen SATA drives behave as if there was no data on them just by
>> switching SATA channels on the mainboard. Don't know if I was doing
>> anything wrong or what. I'd expect to be leery, at least. Do a backup
>> to a USB2 or Firewire external HDD to be safe and sure...
>>
>> "Allen" <> wrote in message
>> newsB96FE51-EE0C-490B-88EE-...
>>> I'm changing out my Asus K8V motherboard to a Asus A8N-E motherboard. I
>>> have
>>> already have sata drivers installed on my old motherboard. My question
>>> is
>>> will I lose my data on these drives when I change the motherboard out.
>>> These
>>> motherboard have different chipsets.
>>
>>
>
>

I have had some problems with PATA also, but not operating them after
moving. I had several drives that when switched from one computer to
another or from a motherboard to a PCI card had a partition problem that
caused backup programs to reject them for copying or drive imaging.


"M. Murcek" <> wrote in message
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> Yeah, I'm too busy just keeping up with work to do any reading about why
> SATA behaves differently from PATA in this regard. I've never seen the
> data loss thing happen with a PATA drive ever. I routinely use WD's
> DataLifeguard and Maxtor's MaxBlast products to move a partition from a
> smaller boot drive to a bigger new drive, take the small drive out, move
> the big one to ATA channel 0 and reboot. It would truly suck to be unable
> in the future to do that. I wonder if the SATA channel that initializes
> the drive somehow "brands" the MBR or something, but that's strictly a
> guess on my part. I rely on moving data around in external USB2 and
> Firewire drives, so I guess I better hoard some big PATA disks to keep
> those Ultra enclosures running...
>
> "John Barnes" <> wrote in message
> news:%...
>>I have had the problem with that also. I have an external IDE that
>>connects with either 1394 or USB and have had the identical problem.
>>
>>
>> "M. Murcek" <> wrote in message
>> news:eKQ$...
>>> I've seen SATA drives behave as if there was no data on them just by
>>> switching SATA channels on the mainboard. Don't know if I was doing
>>> anything wrong or what. I'd expect to be leery, at least. Do a backup
>>> to a USB2 or Firewire external HDD to be safe and sure...
>>>
>>> "Allen" <> wrote in message
>>> newsB96FE51-EE0C-490B-88EE-...
>>>> I'm changing out my Asus K8V motherboard to a Asus A8N-E motherboard. I
>>>> have
>>>> already have sata drivers installed on my old motherboard. My question
>>>> is
>>>> will I lose my data on these drives when I change the motherboard out.
>>>> These
>>>> motherboard have different chipsets.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>

I'm using Raid 0 array. I will just backup my data and see what happens. I
thank everyone for helping.

"John Barnes" wrote:

> Usually not. You don't say if you are using RAID. I know with SATA and
> motherboards, sometimes you will get a format not recognized in disk
> management, if you can get booted, and may get it resolved by plugging into
> different SATA connectors on the MOBO. I have had it come back to
> recognised on several occasions even plugging into the same connector.
> Seems to be much more touchy that way than IDE.
>
>
> "Allen" <> wrote in message
> newsB96FE51-EE0C-490B-88EE-...
> > I'm changing out my Asus K8V motherboard to a Asus A8N-E motherboard. I
> > have
> > already have sata drivers installed on my old motherboard. My question is
> > will I lose my data on these drives when I change the motherboard out.
> > These
> > motherboard have different chipsets.
>
>
>

You will need to get the Nvidia RAID drivers (2) into Windows. Right now
you have the VIA drivers.


"Allen" <> wrote in message
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> I'm using Raid 0 array. I will just backup my data and see what happens. I
> thank everyone for helping.
>
> "John Barnes" wrote:
>
>> Usually not. You don't say if you are using RAID. I know with SATA and
>> motherboards, sometimes you will get a format not recognized in disk
>> management, if you can get booted, and may get it resolved by plugging
>> into
>> different SATA connectors on the MOBO. I have had it come back to
>> recognised on several occasions even plugging into the same connector.
>> Seems to be much more touchy that way than IDE.
>>
>>
>> "Allen" <> wrote in message
>> newsB96FE51-EE0C-490B-88EE-...
>> > I'm changing out my Asus K8V motherboard to a Asus A8N-E motherboard. I
>> > have
>> > already have sata drivers installed on my old motherboard. My question
>> > is
>> > will I lose my data on these drives when I change the motherboard out.
>> > These
>> > motherboard have different chipsets.
>>
>>
>>