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Want to merge partitions on 2 drives

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Umberger

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Long story short, I have two 500GB NTFS drives that I would like to merge into one drive in XP. Different brands, but both 500GB SATA. The computer is an old spare Dell POS that I have lying around and I don't see any RAID support or anything of that nature in the BIOS. I know that Partition Magic will merge 2 partitions that are adjacent on the same drive, but I don't read anything about across 2 drives, and I'm scared to try something and lose all my data. I have enough room to put all of the data on one drive right now, if that makes a difference.

Any input is appreciated.

Cheers,
Umberger
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why do you want to do this. Spanning drives/raid 0 increase the risk of loosing data (and if you are afraid of loosing the data its generally a bad idea).
 
Not sure how this will effect your data, but can't this be done from within Windows? I can't remember what the name of the tool is called exactly, I always get to it from a custom mmc.
 
First, the only way to be sure you won't lose data is to back it up elsewhere. Manipulating disk partitions without having a backup is a common way to lose data.

Second, whatever you do, DO NOT use Windows software spanning if you are interested in high reliability. With Windows software spanning, if one drive in the span fails, you lose ALL the data on all of the drives.
 
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