Make Two Hdd's Act As One In Winxp., How do I??
I have two hard drives. One if 7. 9gigs (call it A) and the other is 9. 32gigs (call it. I have Windows XP Pro installed on the hard drive A and it works perfect. I then installed disk B and went into the disk management settings and tried to make it span and stripe and neither one would make the hdd act as an addi ...
I have two hard drives. One if 7.9gigs (call it A) and the other is 9.32gigs
(call it . I have Windows XP Pro installed on the hard drive A and it works
perfect. I then installed disk B and went into the disk management settings
and tried to make it span and stripe and neither one would make the hdd act
as an addition to the hard drive A. So I am just wondering what I need to do
to make drive B act as an extension to drive A, or in other words: "Make it
look as though the two drives are actually one." Also just so everybody knows
this motherboard doesn’t support RAID so I can't set that up. Any
help/suggestions would be great. Thanks!!
-haryy
(call it . I have Windows XP Pro installed on the hard drive A and it works
perfect. I then installed disk B and went into the disk management settings
and tried to make it span and stripe and neither one would make the hdd act
as an addition to the hard drive A. So I am just wondering what I need to do
to make drive B act as an extension to drive A, or in other words: "Make it
look as though the two drives are actually one." Also just so everybody knows
this motherboard doesn’t support RAID so I can't set that up. Any
help/suggestions would be great. Thanks!!
-haryy
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Your problem is that you already setup windows on the drive and so without a RAID card, you can extend the disk.
What you can do however is mount the 7gb drive as a folder off your main driver through disk management, as well as being a second drive.
By this I mean your second disk is "D:\" but it could also be known as "c:\files" or "c:\games" and will appear in the tree structure of your main disk as another folder.
In disk management, right click on the second drive and choose "change driver letter and paths" and then choose "add" and then mount it to an EMPTY folder on your main drive.
Not as elegant as striping, but almost as effective.
Is this what you are after?
What you can do however is mount the 7gb drive as a folder off your main driver through disk management, as well as being a second drive.
By this I mean your second disk is "D:\" but it could also be known as "c:\files" or "c:\games" and will appear in the tree structure of your main disk as another folder.
In disk management, right click on the second drive and choose "change driver letter and paths" and then choose "add" and then mount it to an EMPTY folder on your main drive.
Not as elegant as striping, but almost as effective.
Is this what you are after?
