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01-02-2003, 11:05 AM
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snowboarder
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can you make 2 drives look like 1 to the OS?
I have an old 30GB hard drive and would like something bigger and newer. But i dont really like having loads of different drive letters, i like it to just have the C drive, i heard a teacher say in one of my ICT classes that it is possible to have 2 drives appear as one huge drive in windows. is this possible?
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01-02-2003, 11:14 AM
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Why not just let the new drive be C?
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01-02-2003, 12:04 PM
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Yep it is if you get another drive as the same as yours (for example) and then use a RAID controller to get IDE RAID.
of course, being as I am, one who laughs at IDE RAID users, I wouldnt really recommend it as a good solution, and would perhaps suggest that you get another new drive that is 4 times as big as your current one .. that will be a good solution
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01-02-2003, 12:30 PM
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I think win2k and winxp will do that as "dynamic" disk also.
I would have to recheck that to be sure. |
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01-02-2003, 12:32 PM
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What you're talking about is called drive spanning.
It is possible, though probably not cheap. Look here: http://www.fssdev.com/products/drivespan/ The other option is to use a RAID controller and software. |
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01-02-2003, 12:44 PM
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I would be curious as to how well that software works, but I'm not overly intrested in paying $69.95 (probably USD too) to find out.
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01-02-2003, 12:47 PM
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hmm, looks like the sort of thing i want, but im not gonna pay that much for it, what is this XP dynamic drive you speak of?
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01-02-2003, 07:26 PM
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Dynamic disks do work in conjuction with RAID or without, something like a software spanning
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;309044 |
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01-02-2003, 10:31 PM
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01-02-2003, 11:15 PM
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dynamic disk or spanning would be what u want for that price.
2000 supports software raid(built in), but Xp does not (they took it out) |
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01-02-2003, 11:34 PM
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Is the JABOD RAID array what does dat?
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01-03-2003, 04:17 AM
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I thought you could span drives with XP, I may be mistaken as I have never tried. I don't think it's a good idea with SCSI and it's probably a bad idea with IDE.
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01-03-2003, 09:22 AM
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you can span drives in xp, just not the c: partition
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01-03-2003, 11:52 AM
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Yes,
It is possible with W2K or XP Pro. However, as far as I can see, the minimum you can get it down (regardless of the amount of HDs used) to is TWO drive letters - one letter for the the boot partition and one letter for spanned dynamic volume. Here's an example using EIGHT HDs with two drive letters http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/h...392118,00.html Not bad, eh?
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