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  • fido123
    FFR Player
    • Sep 2005
    • 4245
    #1

    Combining 2 Hard Drives

    I'm repartitioning my friends computer and he has 2 hard drives. He wants them combined as one. I know how to reformat and everything but will the 2 hard drives merge as one if I partition it all into one section?
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    • ELRayford
      Custom User Title
      • May 2004
      • 1547
      #2
      Re: Combining 2 Hard Drives

      Well what type of Hard Drivers are they {ide or sata} next does the motherboard support raid? Also does he want double copy Mirror, or a stripe which is half on one half on the other. Or do you just want 2 hard drives? What type of things does he use it for?
      Last edited by ELRayford; 07-11-2007, 09:15 PM.

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        • fido123
          FFR Player
          • Sep 2005
          • 4245
          #3
          Re: Combining 2 Hard Drives

          I'm not all that savy in that area but he wants his C and D drive combined when I reformat his computer...they are 2 separate pieces of hardware.

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            • ELRayford
              Custom User Title
              • May 2004
              • 1547
              #4
              Re: Combining 2 Hard Drives

              ok well to actually make 2 seperate harddrives read as one you are going to need to know if the motherboard has support for raid arrays. Also going to need to know what style of Hard Drives they are, SATA(small plug in to mobo and hdd) or EIDE ( long flat ribbon cable into mobo or HDD) then I can help you further

              If you do not have Raid support you will need to but a PCI hard disk controller that supports raid, or just deal with a c and a d drive. Have one for windows and one for data

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                • fido123
                  FFR Player
                  • Sep 2005
                  • 4245
                  #5
                  Re: Combining 2 Hard Drives

                  Originally posted by ELRayford
                  ok well to actually make 2 seperate harddrives read as one you are going to need to know if the motherboard has support for raid arrays. Also going to need to know what style of Hard Drives they are, SATA(small plug in to mobo and hdd) or EIDE ( long flat ribbon cable into mobo or HDD) then I can help you further
                  It's my friends so I don't know...I'm just ganna try it and see what happends

                  Its a 2002 Dell

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                    • ELRayford
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                      • May 2004
                      • 1547
                      #6
                      Re: Combining 2 Hard Drives

                      well i can tell you one thing now if you do not have RAID support its not going to happen. You have to use 3rd party software or the bios functions to set up the combination of the drives. and again if you do not have it just go with 2 drives

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                        • Seinken
                          FFR Player
                          • Jul 2005
                          • 146
                          #7
                          Re: Combining 2 Hard Drives

                          With my experience with Dell chances are if it didn't have RAID support to begin with, it's not there at all.

                          You'll need a RAID controller.


                          VCs SMARTASS

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