Combining Hard Drives

SAAER45

SAAER45

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On one of my computers I have a 20GB IDE Hard Drive and A 40GB IDE Hard Drive, they are both Maxtor. Is there a way to combine them both to be the C:/ Drive. Right Now, the 40GB is the C:/ and I have the 20GB as a F:/ Drive

Thanks,
John
 
Not that i know of, NO. If they were both absolutely identical, as in bot smae capacity, make and model then you could set up some kind of RAID array to combine the two drives, but as your setup stands now i do not think this is possible.
 
Depends on how badly you want to combine them. With a few file modifictations WinXP can span hard drives (ie combine them) as well as do software RAID 0,1 and 5.
 
dragon2309 said:
but surely they would still need to be the same drive, exactly the same for RAID
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i heard that they dont need to be the same, and that it just takes the lowest drive size. For instance, if he raids a 40GB and 20GB, then he will only be able to use 20GB on each drive.
 
geoff5093 said:
i heard that they dont need to be the same, and that it just takes the lowest drive size. For instance, if he raids a 40GB and 20GB, then he will only be able to use 20GB on each drive.
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ah ok, still not an ideal solution though, and it hink he is wanting to get a total capacity of like 60Gb at the end of it....

dragon2309 :D
 
Though I've never tried to do it, AFAIK spanning is exactly what he wants - two hard drives combined as one with the combined storage.
 
geoff5093 said:
i heard that they dont need to be the same, and that it just takes the lowest drive size. For instance, if he raids a 40GB and 20GB, then he will only be able to use 20GB on each drive.
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If that's is the only option, then there would be no point in doing it.
 
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