Mobo swap affect current RAID 0 Config??

Hi guys,
I need your help. I,ve just received this K8N Neo Plat mobo, currently i have an ABIT KV8 with RAID 0 enabled (VIA Chipset) 2x 120Mb Hardisk SATA 7200rpm, 8Mb cache both from Seagate & Maxtor. My question is, if change my old mobo (VIA K8T800) with this new MSI K8N (Nforce3), is there any chance that I could keep my current hardisk configuration with its whole contents intact during installation or do I have to re-format my hardisks with new Windows XP installation.
I surely want to keep my current configuration without have to re-format those hardisks. Is that possible considering I'll move to a different Chipset???
FYI : two months ago I've managed a mobo migration from Albatron K8X800 ProII (RMA this board) to ABIT KV8 without have to changed/re-format those hardisk config, but I'm assuming that was succesfull because those mobo were using the same VIA Chipset. So I'd no problem during installation and my RAID 0 config were going smooth as silk without any error found and my data still intact as before.
Thanks  

You would be best served to back up all pertinent, and important data, then do a clean install.  
Migration of RAID partitions from one chipset to another, be it the same manufacturer, or not, is not possible.  All manufacturers use slightly different data structures, etc.  when writing the data to the disk.  Your Nvidia RAD chipset will not read the information.
The only reason it worked before, is because they were the same exact chipset.
The only other option would be to make an image of the drive using nortons Ghost, or an equivalent.  This assumes you have acces to another drive with enough space to hold all your data.  This route is not reccommended, because the leftover driver bits from you old VIA installation could cause instability down the line, and always at the worst time.

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