spanning a boot volume

[Jeff @ CI]

Greetings one and all,

I have an XP pro machine with a 250GB SATA drive partitioned into a bootable
C:\ and a 3gb D:\. I need to add a 500gb SATA drive and configure it to be
seen as an addition to the C:\. I understand that I must convert to dynamic
the C:\. I am not certain that I can make this happen as the system files
are on the C:\. The question is two-fold. #1 - can I add the second drive
and span it to the existing C:\ volume? #2 - how would I go about doing this?

Thanks in advance,

Jeff

 

[Patrick Keenan]

Greetings one and all,

I have an XP pro machine with a 250GB SATA drive partitioned into a
bootable
C:\ and a 3gb D:\. I need to add a 500gb SATA drive and configure it to
be
seen as an addition to the C:\. I understand that I must convert to
dynamic
the C:\. I am not certain that I can make this happen as the system files
are on the C:\. The question is two-fold. #1 - can I add the second
drive
and span it to the existing C:\ volume? #2 - how would I go about doing
this?

Thanks in advance,

Jeff

This may help:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308424

 

[philo]

Greetings one and all,

I have an XP pro machine with a 250GB SATA drive partitioned into a
bootable
C:\ and a 3gb D:\. I need to add a 500gb SATA drive and configure it to
be
seen as an addition to the C:\. I understand that I must convert to
dynamic
the C:\. I am not certain that I can make this happen as the system files
are on the C:\. The question is two-fold. #1 - can I add the second
drive
and span it to the existing C:\ volume? #2 - how would I go about doing
this?

Thanks in advance,

Jeff

You cannot span a boot or system volume

 

[M.I.5¾]

This may help:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308424

I rather like this snippet from that page:

You cannot create dynamic volumes on (or access dynamic volumes from) a
*Windows XP Professional*-based computer that has one or more of the
following operating systems running:
a.. Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
b.. Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 and earlier
c.. Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition
d.. Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition and earlier
e.. MS-DOS
So how do you load (say) Windows ME on top of Windows XP Pro?

I think I know the point that they are trying to make - they just didn't
make it very well.