Good morning all, I have a Windows XP station with two 20GB hard drives on the primary IDE. (Both Cable Select) Currently Windows XP recognizes them as Drive c: and Drive D:. How do I get Windows XP to combine the two drive and only recognize one Drive c: at 40GB? Your help is greatly appreciated. Thanks, -Mario-

by installing them on the same computer you're kinda doing that? but to my knowledge you can't actually do that since they two physically seperated drives, for example where would a file go if it were in between the two drives (at the end of the first and start of teh second) you would have to separate the file or put it in teh second drive. maybe i ask what excatly you tryin to do?

I believe you can do combine them into one drive if you convert them both to dynamic disks. Although i think that Only Win XP Pro is able to boot off of a dynamic disk. If you choose to do this, go to control panel - administrative tools - computer management - disk management, then right click on the disk and 'convert to dynamic disk'. After that, you should be able to create a multi- disk volume. Cant remember exactly how to do that but in sure someone else does. Steve-o

oh right, i didnt know that. thanks steve-o, learn something new everyday. :)

you can combine two physical HD's using a RAID system. If your mobo does not have built-in RAID capability then you need to purchase PCI RAID card and intall it. I don't think they are expensive. Siri

Be careful using a raid setup, though. If you want one 40gig drive you'll have to use Raid 0 which means that if one of the two drives goes bad, you won't have access to the information on either.

Is it possible to do RAID with IDE? I thought it had to be SCSI?