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2 Hard Drives to Appear as 1

Name: Gary
Date: April 9, 2003 at 03:08:00 Pacific
OS: Windows 2000 Professional
CPU/Ram: AMD XP Athlon 2100/256DDR

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Quote: "Name: dwdino Date: April 07, 2003 at 08:58:29 Pacific Subject: Software Raid - 2 Hard Drives Reply: You can also create a dynamic disk which will not use raid, but rather span the two disks, making them appear as one drive. This gives no redundancy or speed increases, simply reduces number of drive letters." This is exactly what I am after how do I do this?

Name: Rick
Date: April 9, 2003 at 05:34:42 Pacific

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Check Microsofts web site, it has detailed instructions, they are too lenghty to post here. Be aware though, spanned disks are NOT fault tolerent, meaning if one of the disks crash you lose ALL data on BOTH drives.

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Name: Gary
Date: April 9, 2003 at 06:19:18 Pacific

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Any chance of a link?

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Try this one, has it all, (of course all this is in the windows help wizard too). http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308209

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Cheers mate =)

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