2 hdd as 1

[Troncoso]

Is there a way to setup my computer to recognize 2 separate hard drives as one amount of space (1 hard drive)?

I have a 500gb sata harddrive partitioned in half. One half is the OS, the other is storage. my storage is running out quickly, so I'd like to through in a spare 320gb pata for more room.

Can it be done?

 

[johnb35]

Not in that aspect it won't. You would need two drives of the same type (IDE or SATA and your motherboard would have to support RAID. You can't have a partition from one drive and then a total new drive configured for raid. You have to have 2 whole physical drives.

 

[ElenaP]

You can use a new hard drive as a folder on your existing drive. Create a new folder on the existing volume, then use Disk Management to mount a new volume into that folder (use right click on the volume, "Change drive letter and path"). Be advised though that such a configuration has some funny implications as far as free space is concerned.