How to make win2k see 2 hard drives as one

[zener]

Could anybody show me how to make win2k see 2 hard drives as one? I have 3 hard drives (c, e and f) and I want to combine e and f into a virtual single drive like "e" or any other letter. Thanks.

 

[stash]

You need to covert the E and F drives to dynamic drives. These are separate physical drives, right? not partitions?

Assuming they are, and once you convert to dynamic, you can either create a simple spanned volume or a RAID-0 volume. A spanned volume just fills up the first drive then the second, but shows as one drive letter. RAID-0 will alternate between the two drives, so it will be faster.

Beware that you have to delete any exisiting volumes and format the new volume, so move your data!!!

 

[bozo1]

Raid 0 (striping) can only be done on W2K Server - W2K Pro does not support it.

 

[stash]

Not true...only RAID-1 (mirroring) and RAID-5 (striping with parity) are unavailable in 2kpro. You need a server version for those.

Edit: Any easy way to remember is that fault tolerant raid schemes are avail only in server.

 

[bozo1]

That's what I thought as well but I found a technote that said different. If I can stumble across it again, I'll post a link. But of course, we know Microsoft's technotes are always accurate. 🙂

 

[Sapilas]

well I believe there is always a shortest way to the finish line 🙂

go to DISK MANAGER
you can found it inthe
administration tools -> Comp Management

you can do something like we do it in the unix filesystem ..

YOU can mount the e & d drives to C drive..

Go right click to partitions in the disk manager and -> assign letter... and instead of letter set a mount point. to C:\driveE and c:\driveD
if I am wrong please correct me...

Keep it real.
respect da nature..