Recommendations for upgrade order

[Allie-Baba]

I picked up 2 identical SATA HDDs a short time ago as part of my upgrade/fix from what I think was taking a power hit (yes I have battery backup and power monitoring  :( ).  I would like to set them up in some form of a RAID disk array configuration to help my system reliability, etc. (I'm thinking RAID 1, I think it is?).

At any rate, my A7N8X Deluxe Mobo appears to need a BIOS update to fully support SATA RAID and remove some bugs, I need to finish installing the SATA HDDs (I'm on Pata now with a primary and secondary HDD), and I still need to configure the SATA drive(s), partition, and move data over.

So - what are opinions regarding what I should do with regard to order?  I'm thinking, install the now BIOS, then install drives, set mode to RAID, configure drives, then migrate data over?

Thoughts?  Anyone ever done something like this before?

THNX
BRAD

[Carskick]

Your ordering sounds most logical to me. After you transfer data over, I would make sure you already have backups of the data elswhere, just in case something goes haywire, it is most likely to happen in the beginning.

[Allie-Baba]

Thanks Carskick!!

Do you know if I will be able to do a port of the PATA OS disk over to the now SATA OS disk using the Western Digital Disk tools?

THNX
BRAD

[query]

Be sure you activate the SATA controller and install the drivers for it under Windows BEFORE you image the drive to the new one.  Otherwise, you won't be able to boot Windows once you clone to the new drive.