Mounting point question

[SL4Y3R]

I have a 60gb and a 120gb hard drive.
Is it possible to partition the 60gb one into 2 partitions of 30gb each, and then mount one of them into the 120gb. Making it 150gb for one drive, and 30 for other. The reason for this is so I could have 150gb for windows and then 30gb for Linux. I'm not sure if this is going to work, so any help or suggestions would be appreciated.

[HHunt]

120Gb + 30Gb for windows, right?
In NTFS you can mount a volume as a folder, look at Computer managment->Disk managment, right-click a volume, Change drive letter/path -> Mount in the following empty NTFS folder.
Might work for what you want.

However, why? Having them as two drive letters should, if anything, be easier to manage.

[hulksterjoe]

your looking to combine 2 drives into 1 ..its called raid. but you'd need to setup the raid first and then split of the 30gb

[HHunt]

Can you even do RAID with disks of different size?
(And will it be less work than just living with two drives in windows?)

[SL4Y3R]

No I dont want Raid, Its not possible with this setup. I'll just keep them as 2 separate partitions.

Oh BTW which is easier to do install windows first or linux first? I heard that you should install windows first, then linux, so that linux's boot loader takes over?
BTW im using Red Hat 9.0 and windows xp

[HHunt]

Where the * is the delete button? (Doublepost++)

[HHunt]

No I dont want Raid, Its not possible with this setup. I'll just keep them as 2 separate partitions.

Oh BTW which is easier to do install windows first or linux first? I heard that you should install windows first, then linux, so that linux's boot loader takes over?
BTW im using Red Hat 9.0 and windows xp

Quite right. Windows happily overwrites the bootloader you''ve already got and forgets about all other OSs on the machine, while most Linuxes will add a windows entry to their loaders.
You can make the windows loader load linux, if you really want to, but you don't.

[Phoenix86]

No I dont want Raid, Its not possible with this setup. I'll just keep them as 2 separate partitions.

Oh BTW which is easier to do install windows first or linux first? I heard that you should install windows first, then linux, so that linux's boot loader takes over?
BTW im using Red Hat 9.0 and windows xp
Actually what your asking for is a form of RAID, though it's through software mode. XP can do this, you have to convert the volumes into dynamic disks. Then you can combine the two volumes in disk manager.

However, this will slow down disk access, a lot.

[HHunt]

It'll also make it somewhat harder to mount the thing in linux.
Also, isn't dynamic volumes a per-disk, replacing the usual partition table? If so, I imagine installing linux on it might become that much more interesting.