Merging two physical hard drives into one?
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icypyro
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Well without having to reinstall, that is quite impossible unless you have a spare drive to move your install onto. What you want is a RAID setup. There are two types of RAIDs that you would probably use. Either JBOD, which just combines the drives into a single partition, or a RAID 0 which will split the files across both HDDs, but if one drive fails, you lose everything on RAID 0, unlike JBOD.
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What you want is to span the drives. Windows will then see the two drives as one large hard drive but this will need a seperate boot drive.
If you want two disk acting as one large drive and be bootable then you will need raid0 or jbod functionality. Theres a good change your motherbd is capable of both.
If you want two disk acting as one large drive and be bootable then you will need raid0 or jbod functionality. Theres a good change your motherbd is capable of both.
George Hanes
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Take a look at this link.
It may allow you to do what you are asking without reinstalling.
http://lifehacker.com/5986883/how-to-combine-multiple-hard-drives-into-one-volume-for-cheap-high-capacity-storage
It may allow you to do what you are asking without reinstalling.
http://lifehacker.com/5986883/how-to-combine-multiple-hard-drives-into-one-volume-for-cheap-high-capacity-storage
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