I am running windows xp pro on a 250gb hd and just added a 500gb hard drive. I would like to make it one volume, but I cannot get RAID or JBOD to boot and whenever I try to span a drive in computer management I can't because it is the boot disk. How can I achieve one volume on this?

My motherboard is an m2n-32 sli deluxe nforce 570.

And please don't try to talk me into mounting it in a folder or out of trying to jbod. I really just want one big disk volume.

Thank you.

Once you have Windows installed, you can't do it. If you want to create any kind of RAID array AND have Windows installed on that array, you must create it BEFORE you install Windows. The only exception is a mirrored array... but then it's still two separate volumes. A third party program like Partition Magic may be able to accomplish this as well... though I'm not sure.

Right now I have reformatted the drives and set up an array, but when I try to install windows it "cannot find any hard disk drives installed in your computer".

You have to have drivers for your RAID loaded onto a floppy and loaded into Windows via F6. XP doesn't recognize many arrays without a driver.

For the past few hours I have tried to get this working but cannot, I scavenged for a floppy drive and put the drivers on it, but they weren't detected when prompted for. I have tried slipstreaming, but whenever the system hardware is being analyzed it reboots.

Any ideas?