merge two hard disks

[juan luis]

Hello friends
I am spanish so sorry for my english
i want to know if there is some utility that can merge two hard disks
in a way that operating system detects only one whit a size who is
the adition of the early two.
I think that you can understand my poor english
thanks.

[classicsoftware]

If you are trying to make two hard disks appear as one huge hard disk, you may be able to do that with partition magic or some other partitioning program, The question is why?????

If you are trying to move applications from one drive to the other, there is a program call pc relocator that I have used. It is a really big PIA but it will work...

[rond36]

Hello juan luis, Welcome to The PC Guide Forums.

PowerQuest Partition Magic can do it without data loss if the two drives are on the same physical HDD

If the drives are on different physical HDDs A RAID controller card and RAID software would be required and configured for a RAID 0 (stripe) array. The hard drives should be the same size. If they are not the same size the array will be 2X the size of the smallest drive (20GB HDD + 40GB HDD = 40GB array).


All data on both drives will be destroyed in the creation of the stripe array

[sleddog]

Is a RAID controller card required to do it in Win 2000? Reading this: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q175761& and this: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q303184& would tend to suggest not.

[juan luis]

Thank you for your answers.
Now i am going to answer classicsoftware.
Why? the reason is money.
Imagine that you have a 40 gb disk, and you want 80 gb.
It is more expensive buy a new 80 gb disk that buy a 40 gb disk
and merge with the original (40 + 40 = 80).
I send you a salutation.

[classicsoftware]

I would just install the 80 GB drive as a slave. You have more security that way.

Since most power users prefer not to keep everything on one partition, you can still have 80GB w/o the expense of a raid...

[Budfred]

You can actually just share files between the 2 hard disks without acutally having to merge them and still avoid the expense of buying a new 80Gig drive. This would be easier and cheaper than setting up a RAID. You just need to set paths directing certain files and folders to the other disks so that it will occur mostly transparently.

Budfred