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Eatchipz

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Instead of 2 hard drives appearing as to separate drives is their anyway to can merge and make it look like there is just one in windows?

Like I have a 1tb drive and 250gig drive is their anyway windows can look at it as them two drives are one and have like 1.25 gig size?
 
Can only think of two possibilities but have a read and backup your data before testing. I havent had the need to try these before on a desktop so cant point out any pros or cons. Perhaps someone else here can tell you more about these.

Have a read here. You could try and mount your 250GB off a folder on your 1TB drive. Theoretically a 'shortcut' from the first drive to the second drive.
Or you can convert your drives from basic to dynamic and perhaps try a spanned volume...
 
If you have a RAID card/ports that support JBOD, then you can. But really, why? The easiest way is to mount the 250Gb drive as a folder.
 
So really the best and easiest way would to buy a RAID card and hooking them up that way?

I am just curious to see if it could be done to be honest :)!
 
What OS are you running? I use LVM under Linux to combine a mess of disks into what looks like one, which I can then partition and format with the filesystem(s) of my choice.

Under Windows you have LDM which seems like it does mostly the same thing, though I've never used it. It is, however, artificially restricted to the "professional" editions of Windows (XP Pro, XP 64, Vista Business, Vista Ultimate, etc.). You may not use it on XP Home or Vista Home Premium, for example.
 
BillytheImpaler said:
What OS are you running? I use LVM under Linux to combine a mess of disks into what looks like one, which I can then partition and format with the filesystem(s) of my choice.

Under Windows you have LDM which seems like it does mostly the same thing, though I've never used it. It is, however, artificially restricted to the "professional" editions of Windows (XP Pro, XP 64, Vista Business, Vista Ultimate, etc.). You may not use it on XP Home or Vista Home Premium, for example.
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I am running on Vista X64 Edition! Any more help on this would be great!
 
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