Hello, I'm wondering if there is any way to combine my hard drives together. By this I mean instead of two separate hard drives being listed in "My Computer" they are listed as one. My first hard drive is split up into three partitions, "Windows 7", "Windows XP" and "Data". I have found one of my old hard drives and it is currently listed as "Data 2". I want to merge "Data" and "Data 2" into one listing. Is this possible to do?
[QUOTE=boxburn;31724438]Hello, I'm wondering if there is any way to combine my hard drives together. By this I mean instead of two separate hard drives being listed in "My Computer" they are listed as one. My first hard drive is split up into three partitions, "Windows 7", "Windows XP" and "Data". I have found one of my old hard drives and it is currently listed as "Data 2". I want to merge "Data" and "Data 2" into one listing. Is this possible to do?[/QUOTE]
Without losing Data I don't think it is. You could try and set up a JBoD array though.
It's not really possible without having somewhere to store the data from both disks temporarily
The safest way is to get a larger hard drive and copy everything over to one drive. RAID/JBOD requires all drives to be wiped.
Well I could back it all up but it seems too much hassel just for slight ease of use. Thanks though for your replies.
I think you can merge them together with this software called paragon partition manager.
[QUOTE=bp13;31749064]I think you can merge them together with this software called paragon partition manager.[/QUOTE]
You merge partitions with that, not physical hard drives :rolleyes:
[QUOTE=boxburn;31725895]Well I could back it all up but it seems too much hassel just for slight ease of use. Thanks though for your replies.[/QUOTE]If they're the same drive, you could put them into RAID0, which would roughly double the speed you get from a single drive.
[QUOTE=B!N4RY;31751818]You merge partitions with that, not physical hard drives :rolleyes:[/QUOTE]
oh sorry my bad. I should have read it better.
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