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Possible to view two seperate hard drives (different sizes) as one volume in Win2K without RAID 0?

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brinstar117

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My file server is currently running Windows 2000 Professional.

I've mapped network drives on my other computers to access the shared directory on my file server.

However, I have installed a new hard drive on to my file server and wish to have all my new files on the new hard drive still accessible by the existing mapped network drives.

The only way I have figured how to do this is by creating shortcuts in my shared directory to the new hard drive. This works for now, but I want to monitor how much combined space is still left in my file server. By creating shortcuts, explorer won't display any relevant information.

Basically, I want to combine two volumes/partitions together... unfortunately they're on seperate drives. If Windows 2000 can't accomplish this, are any third party software programs capable? Such as Partition Magic?

Thanks for any help!
 
Windows2000 Server can do this by "spanning" multiple dynamic volumes. As far as I know, Win2K Pro can *NOT* do this. The downside of doing this without RAID is that if any drive in a spanned volume dies, the whole volume is toast.
 
Win2K Pro can create RAID 0 and 'spanned' disks, just not any with redundancy. And yes, if one drive has a problem all the data on both is lost.

But, you could mount it to a directory instead of a drive letter, that little feature MS stole from unix.
 
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