2 Hard Drives Acting As 1?

MystiKasT

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Feb 4, 2014
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Hello all,

I currently have a 500gig (2 years old) hard drive [SATA] that is out of space. I am running windows 7. I want to buy a new hard drive and just increase the space, so to say, of my current one. I don't want any new partitions or anything. I want to keep everything as C:. Is there a way to buy, say a 1TB internal SATA drive, and have it combine the two to 1.5TB? You can get technical with it if need be, I do have a decent technical knowledge -- but I do not know this.

TL;DR combining 1 - 500g with 1 - 1tb hardrive to have 1.5TB of C: space when the 500gig already has windows and all its settings on it.

I'd greatly appreciate your help!
 
Solution
No way to do it easily. You'd need to make a backup of your 500GB drive, somewhere. Then install the the 500GB and 1TB drive into the system and create a JBOD (just a bunch of discs) RAID array. Then you'd need to clone your OS back up to the new RAID array.

-Wolf sends

Wolfshadw

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No way to do it easily. You'd need to make a backup of your 500GB drive, somewhere. Then install the the 500GB and 1TB drive into the system and create a JBOD (just a bunch of discs) RAID array. Then you'd need to clone your OS back up to the new RAID array.

-Wolf sends
 
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MystiKasT

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The reason I ask is because I've tweaked this system over many years to be exactly how I like it and I want to keep it exactly that way.

Can i just buy a good 2TB hard-drive and use a program like norton ghost to make an exact copy of my current OS partition with all my games and settings and programs exactly as I like them and just put that on the 2TB hard drive so it is like I have exactly what I have now with 1.5tb left over?

thank you for your help