Possible to "merge" two physical drives?

[Christian Borchgrevink-Lund]

I have two HDs (40 GB and 60 GB). Is it possible to get them to appear as
one disk/partition? I have no RAID solution. Is there any performance
problems with this?

Thanks


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[Norm]

There is no way for you to merge the 2 drives you have.

 

[Rob Schneider]

Not possible with Windows XP. This, though, is a feature of file
systems used on some other operating systems, but not XP.

Hope this is useful to you. Let us know.

rms

 

[Christian Borchgrevink-Lund]

But I have now read about volume spaning in XP. Isn't this what I seek?

 

[Alex Nichol]

I have two HDs (40 GB and 60 GB). Is it possible to get them to appear as
one disk/partition? I have no RAID solution. Is there any performance
problems with this?

By making them into a Dynamic disk. This has its downsides and I would
think *very* carefully before doing so. It is really more for servers
where there is need to spread a great deal of data over multiple drives.
Combining two separate drives puts the whole at risk if there is trouble
with one.

 

[Rob Schneider]

cool. learned something today.

Hope this is useful to you. Let us know.

rms

 

[Christian Borchgrevink-Lund]

The safety issue is not really a problem, I have daily backups of everything
I need and a fresh image on a removable disc. Can I, though, install XP and
a Linux distribution on such a dynamic drive?

Is there a difference in spanning and striping? How do I choose which to
use?

Thanks

Christian

 

[Alex Nichol]

The safety issue is not really a problem, I have daily backups of everything
I need and a fresh image on a removable disc. Can I, though, install XP and
a Linux distribution on such a dynamic drive?

I would quite definitely not attempt to install two different operating
systems on the same partition. And I don't *think* Linux has provision
for working with MS dynamic drives anyway

 

[Christian Borchgrevink-Lund]

I do not want to try on the same partition, but on different partitions on
two dynamic disks. Does this matter?

Thanks

Christian

 

[Malke]

I do not want to try on the same partition, but on different
partitions on two dynamic disks. Does this matter?

Thanks

Christian

You know, you've gotten answers that say basically things like, "why
would you want to do this?" and "this isn't perhaps the safest or best
way" and your response has been that safety isn't an issue. This is a
very good attitude for a geek, because we like to try new things and
learn by breaking stuff. So I'm going to give you the classic Linux
answer: try it and see what happens! Take notes during the process, of
course.

Have a lot of fun,

Malke

 

[Christian Borchgrevink-Lund]

Thanks. The safety issue is really no problem. I backup every day to an
external drive. Thanks for the support...

 

[Alex Nichol]

I do not want to try on the same partition, but on different partitions on
two dynamic disks. Does this matter?

The point of a dynamic disk is to make your two physical disks *look* -
at any rate from Windows - like a single partition, which is what you
originally appeared to be asking for.