Combining 2 Hard Drives

fido123 · 07-11-2007, 10:11 PM

I'm repartitioning my friends computer and he has 2 hard drives. He wants them combined as one. I know how to reformat and everything but will the 2 hard drives merge as one if I partition it all into one section?

**ELRayford** · 07-11-2007, 10:13 PM

Well what type of Hard Drivers are they {ide or sata} next does the motherboard support raid? Also does he want double copy Mirror, or a stripe which is half on one half on the other. Or do you just want 2 hard drives? What type of things does he use it for?

fido123 · 07-11-2007, 10:18 PM

I'm not all that savy in that area but he wants his C and D drive combined when I reformat his computer...they are 2 separate pieces of hardware.

**ELRayford** · 07-11-2007, 10:24 PM

ok well to actually make 2 seperate harddrives read as one you are going to need to know if the motherboard has support for raid arrays. Also going to need to know what style of Hard Drives they are, SATA(small plug in to mobo and hdd) or EIDE ( long flat ribbon cable into mobo or HDD) then I can help you further

If you do not have Raid support you will need to but a PCI hard disk controller that supports raid, or just deal with a c and a d drive. Have one for windows and one for data

fido123 · 07-11-2007, 10:25 PM

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Originally Posted by ELRayford

ok well to actually make 2 seperate harddrives read as one you are going to need to know if the motherboard has support for raid arrays. Also going to need to know what style of Hard Drives they are, SATA(small plug in to mobo and hdd) or EIDE ( long flat ribbon cable into mobo or HDD) then I can help you further

It's my friends so I don't know...I'm just ganna try it and see what happends

Its a 2002 Dell

**ELRayford** · 07-11-2007, 10:27 PM

well i can tell you one thing now if you do not have RAID support its not going to happen. You have to use 3rd party software or the bios functions to set up the combination of the drives. and again if you do not have it just go with 2 drives

Seinken · 07-12-2007, 05:48 AM

With my experience with Dell chances are if it didn't have RAID support to begin with, it's not there at all.

You'll need a RAID controller.

07-11-2007, 10:11 PM	#1
fido123 FFR Player Join Date: Sep 2005 Age: 32 Posts: 4,245	Combining 2 Hard Drives I'm repartitioning my friends computer and he has 2 hard drives. He wants them combined as one. I know how to reformat and everything but will the 2 hard drives merge as one if I partition it all into one section?

07-11-2007, 10:13 PM	#2
ELRayford Custom User Title Join Date: May 2004 Age: 39 Posts: 1,546	Re: Combining 2 Hard Drives Well what type of Hard Drivers are they {ide or sata} next does the motherboard support raid? Also does he want double copy Mirror, or a stripe which is half on one half on the other. Or do you just want 2 hard drives? What type of things does he use it for? Last edited by ELRayford; 07-11-2007 at 10:15 PM..

07-11-2007, 10:18 PM	#3
fido123 FFR Player Join Date: Sep 2005 Age: 32 Posts: 4,245	Re: Combining 2 Hard Drives I'm not all that savy in that area but he wants his C and D drive combined when I reformat his computer...they are 2 separate pieces of hardware.

07-11-2007, 10:24 PM	#4
ELRayford Custom User Title Join Date: May 2004 Age: 39 Posts: 1,546	Re: Combining 2 Hard Drives ok well to actually make 2 seperate harddrives read as one you are going to need to know if the motherboard has support for raid arrays. Also going to need to know what style of Hard Drives they are, SATA(small plug in to mobo and hdd) or EIDE ( long flat ribbon cable into mobo or HDD) then I can help you further If you do not have Raid support you will need to but a PCI hard disk controller that supports raid, or just deal with a c and a d drive. Have one for windows and one for data

07-11-2007, 10:27 PM	#6
ELRayford Custom User Title Join Date: May 2004 Age: 39 Posts: 1,546	Re: Combining 2 Hard Drives well i can tell you one thing now if you do not have RAID support its not going to happen. You have to use 3rd party software or the bios functions to set up the combination of the drives. and again if you do not have it just go with 2 drives

07-12-2007, 05:48 AM	#7
Seinken FFR Player Join Date: Jul 2005 Age: 36 Posts: 146	Re: Combining 2 Hard Drives With my experience with Dell chances are if it didn't have RAID support to begin with, it's not there at all. You'll need a RAID controller. __________________ VCs SMARTASS

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