Software Raid5 in Server 2003

I have a terabyte raid5 running on a server 2003 box. It has a separate system drive. I was wondering, if that system drives fails and I reload 2003 on another drive, will it pick up that software raid5 configuration and all the data? Thanks.

 

If the OS is not part of the array and you have installed applications on the array you will have to restore those applications as well. I am not even sure you can make the OS part of an RAID 5 array. Your best bet would be to restore the OS volume from a full backup...the OS won't know the difference since the array looks like one big drive to it.

 

There are no applications installed. The raid array is just for storage of files. Say I ghosted the system drive, and ghosted it onto another new drive, it should run as if nothing has chanegd and keep the raid5 array intact. I just dont want to lose 1000gigs of data!!