Combine all drives to one

PiKe · 27 Jun 2008 at 23:13

Is this possible under XP and Vista without making them unreadable between OS's?

marc2003 · 27 Jun 2008 at 23:26

can you be a little more vague please?

PiKe · 27 Jun 2008 at 23:40

Several physical volumes but I'd like to have them as one under My Computer, but without Raiding them. Possible?

marc2003 · 27 Jun 2008 at 23:52

raid is the only option. you can do software raid through windows if you don't have the hardware. you'd have to read up about that though, i've never done it before.

Simian · 28 Jun 2008 at 07:24

Is'nt it called RAID-JBOD (Just a Bunch Of Discs) where it combines many various sized (and connections - ATA/SATA) into one resulting Drive... There's no error correction though!!...

Not sure it can be done software-raid though!... I think you need an Hardware-raid (motherboard or controller) that supports JBOD..

eXor · 28 Jun 2008 at 10:12

PiKe said:
Several physical volumes but I'd like to have them as one under My Computer, but without Raiding them. Possible?

A few options:

1. Use dynamic disks ( Vista Biz & Ult only; incompatible with XP and vice versa )
2. Use Linux and LVM.
3.Sell them and use the money to buy a single, massive one.

lumpeh · 28 Jun 2008 at 11:17

Span disk? Shame Windows does not use a filesystem like linux, we could get away from the whole xyz: drive then..