combine 2 hdd's

[foshizzle]

I have 2 identical 160 gig hard drives. These are used only for data, the OS is on another drive. Is there any way I can make both hard drives be treated as one giant partition in windows xp pro?

 

[dnuggett]

Originally posted by: foshizzle
I have 2 identical 160 gig hard drives. These are used only for data, the OS is on another drive. Is there any way I can make both hard drives be treated as one giant partition in windows xp pro?

Yes you have an option called a RAID array.

Here is an indepth on the topic

 

[foshizzle]

I meant to say that in the first post, but forgot, my mobo doesn't do RAID, and I don't want to get a RAID card. I was looking for a solution that could be done using software.

 

[DeadSeaSquirrels]

I thought you could do software RAID with XP.

 

[DannyBoy]

Originally posted by: DeadSeaSquirrels
I thought you could do software RAID with XP.

Erm, not that i remember.

 

[LS]

Convert your drives to dynamic disks and then create a spanned volume. Read more about it here. Although the article is for Windows 2000 it also applies to Windows XP Pro.

 

[Abzstrak]

yes, you can do raid 0 and raid 1 and spanned volumes in software... read the help