Prog to make 2 HDD appear as one

[BScott881]

Does anyone know of any program to make two hard drives appear to the operating system as one. With the combined capacity available...

 

[TheWart]

you would have to physically set the drives in RAID with an adapter. i know of no software that can do this.

 

[WillyF1uhm1]

I agree with what TheWart said. You'd need a RAID controller/adapter, that'll at least support RAID 0, or RAID 0/1. RAID 0 will make you 2 drives appear as one. Best is to take 2 harddisks of the same size, e.g. 2 x 40 GB.

 

[BScott881]

 

[bot2600]

You can span them in 2000 if neither is your boot drive.

 

[BigFatCow]

<< You can span them in 2000 if neither is your boot drive. >>



how?

 

[jfunk]

I know there is software RAID out there for linux, not sure about windows though.


j

 

[bot2600]

You will have to convert each from basic to dynamic first. You then have 2 options. You can either set them up as striped volumes or you can span them sequentially. If you stripe them both volumes will have to be erased, I think spanning them, only the second will have to be erased.

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[Mark R]

You can make one drive appear as a directory on another drive in Win2K - I don't think that you have to erase or format either drive for this to work.

Go to Settings->Control panel -> Administrative tools -> Computer management -> Disk management. Select the drive you want to make into a directory, and right click 'change drive letter and path', then enter the name of the directory you want.

You can join the two drives into 1 drive letter - using either spanning or striping. In the former, the 2nd drive is used when the first is full. In the latter, data is stored in small chunks on both drives, which can give slightly improved performance over 1 drive. Bear in mind that in both of these modes, especially striping, the failure of one drive can lose all the data on both drives.

I can't remember the procedure for creating striped or spanned sets - but both drives must be formatted as 'dynamic' volumes. Note that you cannot boot from a striped or spanned drive letter - If you only have 2 drives, then you will have to create a boot partition on one, and then have a seperate spanned partition - this will mean that you still have 2 drive letters for you hard drives, so I suspect that this is not what you want.

 

[bot2600]

Yeah...thats what I said..

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