Will I lose Raided Drives if I wipe the boot drive?

Hey,
I'm having a couple different issues with my computer, so I'm hoping if I wipe down and zero out the boot drive and reinstall evrything back to the factory settings, some of the issues will be resolved.
I have two 500gb drives in the Mac Pro that are Raided together. I performed the raid through the disc utilities. I am wondering if I erase everything from the boot drive will it be able to reconize the Raid btw the two drives when it is restored, giving me acesss to everything saved on the raid.
Thanks very much!

RAID-ness is an attibute of the Drive, not the Mac, and not the boot drive.
If you took a RAID drive out and put it in another Mac running a similar Operating System, it would still be a RAID drive.
Rebuild your boot drive with confidence, it should have no impact on your RAID drives.

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