A while back I created a span on my system of 2 hard drives. I did this from within disk managment in XP, extending the first drive to contain the second. If I were to reformat the OS partition and install a different OS on it (XP MCE instead of Pro) would I still be able to access this partition, or is the span stuck with the current installation of Windows that I have?
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Spanned drive with Windows XP
- Thread starter WCES Ryan
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Sorry, if I wasn't clear, my OS partition is not on either of the two drives that are striped. Are you still saying that if I format the OS drive, I will not be able to access the 2 striped storage drives?
And I am looking at going to MCE for the HTPC capabilities, unless of course there is a way I can install those features in Pro.
And I am looking at going to MCE for the HTPC capabilities, unless of course there is a way I can install those features in Pro.
I'm pretty certain there is no 3rd party / MS tweak that will let you install the HTPC features of MCE on an XP Pro machine.
That being said, thanks for the clarification, Im not certain if in your case, if a new install of XP MCE will see the spanned disks, I'd query MS directly for that, either through their Knowledge Based thingy or through email support. I would think that it probably would not be seen by MCE as its a software span that is recognized by the OS. Moreover, MCE lacks many of the advanced features such as disk spanning and stuff that Pro has. Sorry I dont have a definitive answer.
That being said, thanks for the clarification, Im not certain if in your case, if a new install of XP MCE will see the spanned disks, I'd query MS directly for that, either through their Knowledge Based thingy or through email support. I would think that it probably would not be seen by MCE as its a software span that is recognized by the OS. Moreover, MCE lacks many of the advanced features such as disk spanning and stuff that Pro has. Sorry I dont have a definitive answer.