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your question was answered in your previous thread:<br />
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your question was answered in your previous thread:

https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/28606454/Server-2012-install.html [https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/28606454/Server-2012-install.html]

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I have a Dell R710 server running Server 2008 32 bit. &nbsp;I want to do a clean install of Server 2012 64 bit on it. &nbsp;<br />
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&nbsp;It has 2 drives for the operating system in RAID 1 and 4 drives in RAID 5 for data. <br />
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&nbsp;I know I will lose the data on the operating system drives when I do the 2012 install. &nbsp;<br />
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How about the data on the RAID 5 array, will I have access to that after installing Server 2012 even though all data was created in Server 2008 32 bit and the new operating system will be Server 2012 64 bit? <br />
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&nbsp;Thanks,<br />
&nbsp;cja
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I have a Dell R710 server running Server 2008 32 bit.  I want to do a clean install of Server 2012 64 bit on it.  

 It has 2 drives for the operating system in RAID 1 and 4 drives in RAID 5 for data. 

 I know I will lose the data on the operating system drives when I do the 2012 install.  

How about the data on the RAID 5 array, will I have access to that after installing Server 2012 even though all data was created in Server 2008 32 bit and the new operating system will be Server 2012 64 bit? 

 Thanks,
 cja

Server 2008 32 BIT and Server 2012 64 BIT

Windows Server 2012 is the server version of Windows 8 and the successor to Windows Server 2008 R2. Windows Server 2012 is the first version of Windows Server to have no support for Itanium-based computers since Windows NT 4.0. Windows Server 2012, now in its second release (Windows Server 2012 Release 2) includes Foundation, Essentials, Standard and Datacenter, and does not support IA-32 or IA-64 processors.

Windows Server 2012

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