Remove raid without losing stuff?

[pkroks]

i was just wondering. i got an asus a8n sli deluxe mobo. the pc came with RAID config for my 2 160GB hdds. is there any way to remove the raid config without losing the stuff on the harddrives. this may be a stupid question but i thought i might try...

 

[Nodsu]

If it is RAID1 then yes. In case of RAID0, no.

 

[pkroks]

how do you tell which version of raid it is? it was installed when i got the system

 

[Didou]

How does it show up in the Disk Manager ? One big disk of 320GB ?

 

[pkroks]

ya, it says that its a 306.77 gb hdd. and its managed by nVidia. now i know for a fact that i have 2x 160gb hdds so i also don't know why its saying i only got 306 gb....

 

[Didou]

It is then probably running a RAID-0 stripe I'm afraid. If you can't move the data to another PC or backup it on DVDs, you won't be able to keep it when removing the RAID stripe.

 

[pkroks]

ya it is. i found the prog called nvraid. it says that the hdds are in a striping array. the manual says to right click on the array and then select delete but when i right click it only has hot plug array... what do i do?