How to set up 2 hard drives ?

[Srfrbum]

Hello..

I have seen many posts here regarding using two hard drives for example a raptor for gaming and a 500GB hard drive for storage. Is this a form of RAID ? And can somebody explain to me how to set this kind of configuration up, or point me into a direction of how to set something like this up.

 

[nineball9]

Just plug the drives in! It will not matter if they are PATA or SATA or a combination, you will simply have a system with 2 individual drives and drive letters. Unles you have an unusual motherboard which defaults to RAID - not something I've heard of for home systems - your BIOS will not create any RAID configuration.

PC's have been built with multiple drives without RAID for years.
Good luck!

 

[Zepper]

On my second drive I make all the space one big extended partition with as many logical drive spaces inside that I want. That way it doesn't mess with the drive letters.

.bh.

 

[Billb2]

NO, each logical partition will also be assigned a drive letter.

 

[Zepper]

Yes, but if you have a primary and extended partitions on your primary drive, and you add a drive with a primary partition, it will be assigned D and the next logical in the extended on the primary drive will be moved down 1 letter. With the secondary drive all extended, the logical drive letters will come at the end of whatever drive letters are on the primary drive. Drive letters are automatically assigned in this order: primaryDrv/primaryParts, secondaryDrv/primaryParts, primaryDrv/extendedLogDrvs, secondaryDrv/extendedLogDrvs.

I know that with Win 2k, XP and Vista you can easily change the assigned drive letters, but it's just easier for me to partition the drives so the letters come out right automatically. Then I only have to mess with the removable drive letters.

.bh.