Is multiple HDs but one virtual drive possible?

[Spiff1333]

I don't know if I phrased that well but is there any way to take multiple hard drives, say 4 250GB, and then some how set them up so Windows recognizes it as one 1000GB(1TB) drive. Thanks.

 

[Absentee]

Raid-0
but i would also like to know if there is a better solution to this?

 

[draksia]

You can span them instead of raid0. It will perform just like one disk but you will not lose all the data if you have a disk failure just what is on that disk.

To do this in windows convert them to dynamic disk and then using the disk manager create a spanned volume.

 

[Absentee]

will doing the above method lose any current data?

oh and PS.....home edition of XP doesnt support that....so if you have that raid-0 may be your only option.....as of now its mine

 

[draksia]

Whether spanning or using raid0 will have to start from clean disk which means you will lose your data.

For you it seems that best option would be just manage the use of mutliple disk your self. Certianly not as convient but the end result is the same.

 

[Vertigo Acid]

For an ass-backwards solution, you can set up one drive as the "root" drive, and then instead of giving the other drives letters, you can mount them as directories on the drive w/ the letter, ala *nix OSes.