MOVED: Upgrading system with existing RAID Array

This topic has been moved to Vista problems.
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The only issue I can foresee is a permissions one. Make sure it is set to "Ignore permissions…" before doing anything. If the drive has specific ownership when you reinstall and you fail to have a matching account to the onwer you'll need to mess with the root account to potentially get back into the drive.
Most unknowingly avoid this issue though using the same username and short username on the reinstalled system.

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