I have two small (~6G) partitions on separate drives. Is it possible
under Win2K to "combine" the partitions so that they appear as one large
partition/drive?

How would I do that?

Sid Knee wrote:
> I have two small (~6G) partitions on separate drives. Is it possible
> under Win2K to "combine" the partitions so that they appear as one large
> partition/drive?
>
> How would I do that?

Look at spanned volumes


http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=175761

http://www.petri.co.il/difference_be..._2000_2003.htm


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These articles may help.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000...dm_upgrade.htm
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/222189/EN-US/

I don't think you would want to any way because you would then have a
non-fault tolerant situation where a problem with either disk would be
catastrophic.

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"Sid Knee" wrote:
|I have two small (~6G) partitions on separate drives. Is it possible
| under Win2K to "combine" the partitions so that they appear as one large
| partition/drive?
|
| How would I do that?

Steve Parry wrote:
> Sid Knee wrote:
>> I have two small (~6G) partitions on separate drives. Is it possible
>> under Win2K to "combine" the partitions so that they appear as one large
>> partition/drive?
>>
>> How would I do that?
>
> Look at spanned volumes
>
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=175761
>
> http://www.petri.co.il/difference_be..._2000_2003.htm

Thanks, Steve ... I'll take a look

Dave Patrick wrote:
> These articles may help.
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000...dm_upgrade.htm
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/222189/EN-US/
>
> I don't think you would want to any way because you would then have a
> non-fault tolerant situation where a problem with either disk would be
> catastrophic.

Thanks Dave .... it's not that bad actually. I only use these two
partitions for saving some non-critical, replaceable data files from a
program that runs unattended. Problem is that the save location is
(user) configured in the application and when the first partition fills,
it barfs and stops. Then I have to either clean out the partition or
change the save location and restart from where it left off. Either way
is a nuisance and, although I often need more than the one partition
space, I'd rarely go over the combined space.

A larger partition is the real answer but I don't have the hardware (or
the cash :-) ) at the moment.