kwngian - 3:54 pm on Aug 25, 2007 (gmt 0)

So if I install Gigabyte's RAID drivers before swapping out the hardware, should that be good enough to at least boot up?

In theory, that is supposed to work. As long as the drives are accessible and you don't get the blue screen, the rest of the other devices are plug-and-plug. But if the hardware are very different, there may be problems.

Why not just detached one of the drive as suggested and do a test. You can always rebuild the drives if there are problems.