Partition Magic

[ezkim0x]

win 2003 server

is it possible to combine 2 hdds as 1 partition?

or possible to make it appear that the 2 hdds are running as 1 partition?

 

[DaveSimmons]

Not in Partition Magic.

You can use RAID0 if they are the same size, or disk spaninng / "JBOD" but you do these in Windows or the BIOS not in partition magic.

It also means reformatting the drives and losing all data. It also doubles the risk of losing all data -- if either drive fails you lose the data on both drives.

 

[chusteczka]

Through the motherboard bios, you may set up a RAID array.
Through the MS Windows operating system, you may manage a dynamic disk volume.

For WinXP, search for the following: (hopefully win 2003 server is similar)[*]Dynamic disks and volumes[*]Manage dynamic volumes

 

[corkyg]

RAID 0 or Dynamic Disk spanning - both are risky. JBOD might work.

 

[ForumMaster]

only through RAID 0,JBOD or usuing windows to create a dynamic disk. but either way, you will need to format the drives and you increase the risk of loosing all your data if one HDD should fail.

 

[Czar]

You can have one partition on one disk, then you can link another disk to some directory on that disk

I think that if you loose the first disk the data should still be on the second disk.. .whatever was in that folder

 

[ezkim0x]

Originally posted by: Czar
You can have one partition on one disk, then you can link another disk to some directory on that disk

I think that if you loose the first disk the data should still be on the second disk.. .whatever was in that folder

how would you go about doing this?

 

[Czar]

Originally posted by: ezkim0x

Originally posted by: Czar
You can have one partition on one disk, then you can link another disk to some directory on that disk

I think that if you loose the first disk the data should still be on the second disk.. .whatever was in that folder

how would you go about doing this?

righto
just did this today (not adding to a directory though), created a new disk for a vmware computer at work, first you initialize the disk in disk manager and when you format it instead of giving it a drive letter f: or something you can direct it to directory on another disk

btw, I'm not sure if you can access the data if the primary disk fails... just test it, remove the first disk or attack the disk to another computer