4.4gb Left on my C: Drive....

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bwdzxc

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So I recently had a storage setup of 2x 250gb and 1x 500gb. One 250gb was storage and one is the C: Drive. The 500gb was storage too but it didn't work right. So I just bought a 1tb drive but everything that was on the storage 250gb and 500gb onto it and took out the 500gb and put the 1tb in its place. So now I have a full C: Drive and a empty 250gb. I want to some how combine the extra 250gb to the other 250gb. I have read two ways. JBOD and Raid 0. My mobo (MSI-760GM-P34) says it supports Raid 0 and JBOD but I have no idea how to "access it". I go into BIOS and I do not see any Raid option... Running W8 64-bit. I would rather not format my C: Drive so I was trying to avoid raid I don't care to much about a performance increase (even though it would be nice) but if that is what I have to do well I have to do it. TL;DR I want to combine my two 250gbs HDD into one to expand my C: Drive but trying to avoiding formatting.
 
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You can't combine the two drives if they have data in a new RAID, you need to backup the data, create the RAID setup and copy the data back.

I don't suggest using either RAID0 nor JBOD as you double the chance of losing data, if either drive fails, you lose data in both. Maybe with JBOD you only lose data if the first disk goes, I have not used JBOD setup in a long time and never had a failure on the drives to work though.

Best plan would be to get another large drive, use an imaging utility to copy your existing C drive to it, and use your old two 250 gig drives as backups.
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What is taking up all the space on the 250 gig drive that's the C:? If it's your documents, you can move the location for the user data files to the new drive to free up space. Unless you know what you are doing with RAID, you are better off not using it as it can create a greater chance of data loss.
 
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The OS, Documents, most game installs, program files. Between Program Files x86 and Program files I have a little over 100gb. All of my good data and the stuff I want to keep are on my 1tb drive but I just don't feel like re installing windows, the games, and programs etc.
 
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You can't combine the two drives if they have data in a new RAID, you need to backup the data, create the RAID setup and copy the data back.

I don't suggest using either RAID0 nor JBOD as you double the chance of losing data, if either drive fails, you lose data in both. Maybe with JBOD you only lose data if the first disk goes, I have not used JBOD setup in a long time and never had a failure on the drives to work though.

Best plan would be to get another large drive, use an imaging utility to copy your existing C drive to it, and use your old two 250 gig drives as backups.
 
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bwdzxc

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I would agree about just getting a bigger drive. Thanks for the help!
 
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