RedShoe

Do you know about striped hard drives? Like what happens if you pull one out and mount it into a new machine? do you lose all the data?

I had a machine die just earlier today. The machine is old but the info on the HD's is all I really want. I'd rather salvage the drives and just toss the machine. I haven't fired it up in months and when I did, the power supply died.

I have an external HD shell, and pulled one of the drives and mounted it into my new machine and it says the HD is striped. I forgot, but I guess all 4 of the internals were striped as 1. Or at the very least 2 of them were.

It's asking if I want to "import the foreign disk" or "convert to basic disk" When I chose convert it said all the data would be lost. When I click "import" it doesn't say I'll lose the info, however, I don't have enough room on any one single drive to hold all the info.

If I choose import... will the data be lost?

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