Combining 2 hdds?

[A Hamburgl3r]

Ok so my HHD is full so i got a new one and pluged it in and it works. But one hdd is on disk 0 and the other is on disk 1 and i cant combind them. I tried doing this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qptUDq-kMpg and i cant extend the volume. I think its because the hdds are on different disks because in the vid they are on the same disk. So how would i get them on the same disk.

 

[quesionboy]

Ok so my HHD is full so i got a new one and pluged it in and it works. But one hdd is on disk 0 and the other is on disk 1 and i cant combind them. I tried doing this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qptUDq-kMpg and i cant extend the volume. I think its because the hdds are on different disks because in the vid they are on the same disk. So how would i get them on the same disk.

To solve this problem, you have two choice.
First. Buy a hardware raid controller, then build hardware raid 0.
Requirement: your motherbord must support raid
Advantage: The raid0 will speed up the performance of data reading and writing
Disadvantage: you need to build the raid first then reinstall OS on this raid

Second: Convert these two disk into dynamic disk, and then partition it, leave a single simple volume for OS, and build other volume (both on disk 1 and disk 2) as spanned volume or stripe volume (software raid 0).
Requirement: Your OS must support dynamic disk, most Windows Home Edtition do not support this.
Advantage: compare to first method, this one is easier.
Disadvantage: some applications could not work under dynmaic disk, such as Ghost,

 

[A Hamburgl3r]

I am doing the seconde one but when i go to Convert one of the hdd to dynamic disk it says after i convert i cant start installed operationg system so what should i do??

 

[A Hamburgl3r]

So I am trying to get on HDD with my os and data on it to combine with the new empty HDD.

 

[quesionboy]

I am doing the seconde one but when i go to Convert one of the hdd to dynamic disk it says after i convert i cant start installed operationg system so what should i do??

What's your OS version? That warning doesn't mean your os could not boot up 100% after convert to dynamic. Becasue the stability of dynamic disk is not as good as basic disk, therefore the system is just give you a precautionary

warning. BTW, why you want to combine them into one? I think to build hardware raid 0 is the best choice.

 

[A Hamburgl3r]

I am running win 7 home premium version 6.1 (build 7608: service pack 1). I was also trying to just make a clone of my 500gb to my 2tb but not long into the cloning process it came up with an error and faild to clone. I tried like 3 different programs but they all had an error. Is there like a transfer cable or something so i can just transfer my os and data to my new hdd??

 

[quesionboy]

I am running win 7 home premium version 6.1 (build 7608: service pack 1). I was also trying to just make a clone of my 500gb to my 2tb but not long into the cloning process it came up with an error and faild to clone. I tried like 3 different programs but they all had an error. Is there like a transfer cable or something so i can just transfer my os and data to my new hdd??

Winodws 7 HOME premium? It could not support dynamic disk, if you want to migrate your OS to new hard disk, as I know, AOMEI Partition Assistnat Home Edtition adn Parogan Migrate OS tool could do this job. However, here I find an article about how to migrate system to SSD? (I think they are the same to migrate your OS to new HDD).
I forget one things, the software which mentioned in that article is not free, you could use the freeware which integrate the system migration function. You could find it in CNET

 

[womble]

How big is your documents folder? I it is fairly big with 1000's of pics and mp3s etc you can tell Windows to relocate it to the new drive.

 

[A Hamburgl3r]

well i just spent $36 on this program and it does not work...I go to copy disk drive but at boot up it fails and just re boots to how it was.

 

[A Hamburgl3r]

Winodws 7 HOME premium? It could not support dynamic disk, if you want to migrate your OS to new hard disk, as I know, AOMEI Partition Assistnat Home Edtition adn Parogan Migrate OS tool could do this job. However, here I find an article about how to migrate system to SSD? (I think they are the same to migrate your OS to new HDD).
I forget one things, the software which mentioned in that article is not free, you could use the freeware which integrate the system migration function. You could find it in CNET

I did what you said and it works so now i have hdd c, e and p. i just put all the stuff from c to e so now can i remove hdd c?

 

[A Hamburgl3r]

Never mind i got every thing to work now. Thanks for your help

 

[quesionboy]

Never mind i got every thing to work now. Thanks for your help

That's my honor , if you got other problem, share it on the fourm. Then you will find the answer.

 

[A Hamburgl3r]

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