Make Two Hdd's Act As One In Winxp., How do I??

[Guest]

I have two hard drives. One if 7.9gigs (call it A) and the other is 9.32gigs
(call it . I have Windows XP Pro installed on the hard drive A and it works
perfect. I then installed disk B and went into the disk management settings
and tried to make it span and stripe and neither one would make the hdd act
as an addition to the hard drive A. So I am just wondering what I need to do
to make drive B act as an extension to drive A, or in other words: "Make it
look as though the two drives are actually one." Also just so everybody knows
this motherboard doesn’t support RAID so I can't set that up. Any
help/suggestions would be great. Thanks!!

-haryy

 

[Guest]

Dynamic disks provide features that basic disks do not, such as the ability
to create volumes that span multiple disks (spanned and striped volumes), and
the ability to create fault tolerant volumes (mirrored and RAID-5 volumes).
All volumes on dynamic disks are known as dynamic volumes.

There are five types of dynamic volumes: simple, spanned, striped, mirrored,
and RAID-5. Mirrored and RAID-5 volumes are fault tolerant and are available
only on computers running Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2000 Advanced Server,
Windows 2000 Datacenter Server, or Windows XP. However, you can use a
computer running Windows XP Professional to create mirrored and RAID-5
volumes on these operating systems.

 

[Alex Nichol]

The reason why there is the 8mb non-partitioned spot on the hard drive A is
because when you format the hdd and then set up the filesystem on there it
always makes you leave that 8mb part at the begining of the disk.

The reason for that is that partitions are (normally) aligned to
cylinder boundaries on the disk. The disk Master boot record (initial
boot code and partition tables) takes the very first sector on any disk,
leaving the rest of that cylinder slack. It may then be used by a
boot/partition manager, or for the tables for dynamic disk setup.