PARTITIONING... help!

[Alex]

ok so i was thinking about repartitioning my HDs but i have a question..... i have 80 and 120 so ideally for me it would be like a 30-170 split but im wondering what happens if i physically remove the second HD for whatever reason? assuming both HDs are FULL, i would assume that the 120GB hard drive would just retain the 120 on it and the other 50GB would be on the primary drive.... but what if both drives are not full...? can i assume that the extra 50GB of space from the first HD will only be used once the second one is full? how is the space allocated?

sorry if this was long and vague but this is really bothering me.....

thanks!

-frang

 

[JonnyBlaze]

you cant join a the 50gigs from the 80 to the 120 if thats what you mean

JB

 

[Matthias99]

Originally posted by: JonnyBlaze
you cant join a the 50gigs from the 80 to the 120 if thats what you mean

JB

Well, you *could*, but only if you used a RAID controller that supported uneven sizes when using JBOD (which is most of them). This would make it look to your OS that you have one 200GB drive. In any case, removal or failure of one of the disks would break any partitions that are wholly or partially on the disk that was removed. If you have a 170GB partition spanning two drives, removing one of them will break it; you will NOT generally be able to access the first 120GB (at least through normal means; data recovery software might be able to pull files off of it).

 

[Bozo Galora]

DOS partitions dont span HDD
you cant have a 30-170
you can have a 30/50 - 120 (C/D-E)
and you must partition the second drive while it's attatched as slave and unpartitioned, in other words not already partitioned once by itself, if so, it will already have a single primary which will give you

30/50 - 120 (C/E-D)