Dynamic drive?????

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tich

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I need to put a second hard drive in my puter cause the drive that I have is rapidly running out of space. I know that I could just put a larger hard drive in but I have an 80 G hard drive spare. I`m sure that I have read somewhere that instead of having two separate hard drives with different drive letters (i.e. Drive C and drive E) I can add another hard drive as a continuation of drive C. I think it called something like a dynamic drive???. Am I talking a load of nonsense, did I dream it or is it actually possible to do such a thing?
If this can be done any chance of a bit of a tutorial on how to do it? I`me running Windows XP Pro if that has any relevance.

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Tich:)
 
I believe you're thinking of RAID0, which is when you take say, two WD 80GB hard drives and combine them so they physically act like a single 160GB drive.

But this can only be done on identical hard drives, you cant use an 80GB (your spare), and a larger primary hard drive, and they should have the same specs as well.
 
[-0MEGA-];637331 said:
I believe you're thinking of RAID0, which is when you take say, two WD 80GB hard drives and combine them so they physically act like a single 160GB drive.

But this can only be done on identical hard drives, you cant use an 80GB (your spare), and a larger primary hard drive, and they should have the same specs as well.
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No there's something called dynamic volumes. They add together hard drives to act like one.
 
Styrak said:
No there's something called dynamic volumes. They add together hard drives to act like one.
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If thats true then it's a new one on me, as far as I know the only way to make hard drives "seem like one big one", is to RAID them.
 
actually dynamic disks is also included in xp pro, not just server. It basically stripes drives together, but I do not think it offers any kind of redundancy.

what exactly are you trying to accomplish here? There are many ways to accomplish a goal. I have never really used dynamic disks in windows because from what I gathered tinkering with it, is that it was a huge pain and did not really benefit me in anyway. I haven't used it since windows 2000, so I suppose it could have improved.

OMEGA check this link for info: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/175761/EN-US/

other reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_2000

Originally, the concept of this technology was that people who were migrating from windows 98 (DOS environment) to windows 2000 (NT environment) could have both a FAT32 and a NTFS partition on the same volume, ie one drive.
 
tlarkin said:
actually dynamic disks is also included in xp pro, not just server. It basically stripes drives together, but I do not think it offers any kind of redundancy.

what exactly are you trying to accomplish here? There are many ways to accomplish a goal. I have never really used dynamic disks in windows because from what I gathered tinkering with it, is that it was a huge pain and did not really benefit me in anyway. I haven't used it since windows 2000, so I suppose it could have improved.

OMEGA check this link for info: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/175761/EN-US/

other reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_2000

Originally, the concept of this technology was that people who were migrating from windows 98 (DOS environment) to windows 2000 (NT environment) could have both a FAT32 and a NTFS partition on the same volume, ie one drive.
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Ahh.........Striping IS RAID 0
 
the only thing to think about with using dynamic drives is that the systems you set it up on is the only the system that will be able to access the data, so if you boot drive crashes
you just lost all the data on your other drive.
 
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