PLEASE HELP !! if you can...

[Wolverdick]

So here is my problem...

my motherboard died unexpectedly last week. It was an ASUS M2N-SLI deluxe. this model is discontinued so I installed a new ASUS M3N-HT deluxe. The installation went fine but of course I now have an entirely new chipset and raid drivers. Thus I could not access my hard drives (500Gb raid striped) which had my XP64 installation on them.

I thought it would be a good time to make some upgrades so I installed a new pair of 10000rpm drives striped to form a new 300Gb startup drive, on this I have installed the new Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit.

All of this has proceeded smoothly except that I still cannot access the information on my old drives. Windows 7 can see the drives, but cannot read any of the information from them.

I thought I would try an upgrade installation of windows 7 on my old drive, but I still run into the roadblock of there not being the proper raid drivers on that disk. Windows can only upgrade after logging in to the excisting OS. Ive tried everything I can think of to get the raid drivers onto the old disk but to no avail.

While there is a lot of stuff on the old drives, I really just need to access my old documents folder so I can pull off the most recent copies of some improtant work Ive done, then i would be happy to wipe those drives and start over.

so my question is... HOW CAN I GET TO THE INFORMATION ON MY OLD DRIVES???

any and all help is greatly appreciated...I am at the end of my wits on this.

[EzyStvy]

HOW CAN I GET TO THE INFORMATION ON MY OLD DRIVES???

You should be able to use your backup drives/cd/dvd/ and or flash drives

If you don't have any backups...you MUST find either an Identical mobo to old mobo or a PCI raid card made by the exact same company and it uses the exact same drivers.

[jimhannon]

This will do what you want.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16812200155