How to run two hard drives as the same drive?

SneakyRed · Mar 13, 2014

Ok. So i am looking to get a new ssd but i don't want to lose all of my information on my current one or copy it over and i know that i have herd of something that can two drives as the same one i just don't know what its called. Can someone help me?

Thanks -Sneakyred

clide005 · Mar 13, 2014

There are a couple of things you could do, but I am pretty sure what you're thinking of is creating a spanned volume. You would have to convert both disks to be dynamic. It can be done in w7 pretty easy, but honestly it is kind of a dumb idea. Well that depends I guess. Are you using an HDD as your main drive? if yes it is a dumb idea. What you should do is clone your hdd to your new sdd using the software that will come with the new drive. Then format your old drive and place it as a separate volume. I hope that makes sense. The new ssd will come with a disk just run through the instructions you should be fine. As far as formatting the old drive you can just google using disk manager to format a drive and you will have more info than you need in like 30 seconds.

verma1891 · Mar 13, 2014

You can find more help on google by typing the same thing there.

SneakyRed · Mar 13, 2014

clide005 :

There are a couple of things you could do, but I am pretty sure what you're thinking of is creating a spanned volume. You would have to convert both disks to be dynamic. It can be done in w7 pretty easy, but honestly it is kind of a dumb idea. Well that depends I guess. Are you using an HDD as your main drive? if yes it is a dumb idea. What you should do is clone your hdd to your new sdd using the software that will come with the new drive. Then format your old drive and place it as a separate volume. I hope that makes sense. The new ssd will come with a disk just run through the instructions you should be fine. As far as formatting the old drive you can just google using disk manager to format a drive and you will have more info than you need in like 30 seconds.

my old drive is an ssd too

clide005 · Mar 14, 2014

SneakyRed :

Then I would just format it to ntfs and add it as a spanned volume to the C: drive you can do that from Disk manager. When you do that it should automatically convert both disks to dynamic drives.

Hawkeye22 · Mar 14, 2014

Won't that convert it to a RAID 0? If so, if one drive fails, you will lose the data on both drives.

Spanned volumes are not fault tolerant. This page shows how to do span using diskpart, but disk management will do the same.

clide005 · Mar 17, 2014

Hawkeye22 :

He is right raid 0 isn't fault tolerant. but if you want to run two separate disks under the same drive letter I think that is how you need to do it. He can't do it as a basic volume because the drives are non contiguous. He could run it as a raid 5 if he wanted to get a 3rd drive in the mix.

Hawkeye22 · Mar 17, 2014

It sounds like you want RAID 1 where two drives are mirrored. If your motherboard supports RAID it should be easy to do.

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