eyeball Posted September 18, 2007 Share Posted September 18, 2007 Hi all,ive tried googling this but its so hard to find what i am looking for.i have a lot of hard drives, does anyone know if there is a piece of software that can show all of them as a singledrive? (but not through any sort of RAID)thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponch Posted September 18, 2007 Share Posted September 18, 2007 I couldn't find anything, but if all files and folder of the roots would be appear together on the new drive, what about identical names ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyeball Posted September 18, 2007 Author Share Posted September 18, 2007 hmm good point lollike i say im not sure its exists, its just i thought it would be nicethanks anyway Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
low_tech Posted September 18, 2007 Share Posted September 18, 2007 I am not sure if any software does this but you can do JOBD in WinXP, Win2k & Win2k3. This is known as a spanned volume. Not sure about Vista as I have not played with it much. You should realize however that the drawback utilizing this method is there is no redundancy, you lose 1 drive you lose the whole volume.Here is the link showing you how: http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documen...e.mspx?mfr=true Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyeball Posted September 18, 2007 Author Share Posted September 18, 2007 thanks low tech but im aware of spanning, but as you say the data 'spans' the volumes so redundancy is an issue.Basically i have 4 Raid 1 volumes 2 X 400GB 1 X 500GB and 1 X 750GB and data organization is a pain.i tried some desktop search engines but they all suck, i used to use copernic 1.7.1 i think and it was awesome but i now run XP X64 and guess what, its not supported properly. so i came up with this possibility.If anyone has any other suggestions or ideas i am willing to try them.P.S the built in windows search funtionality has some proper commands you can use with it doesnt it? does anyone know them? as a google search only brings up links to windows desktop search mainlybtw i tried WDS and it doesnt fit on my taskbar (i have it on the rhs of my screen and the search box is cut of by the magnifying glass icon) so that is out of the questionthanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamt Posted September 19, 2007 Share Posted September 19, 2007 If you have them formatted as NTFS, you can add each drive as a folder on an existing NTFS partition, using the Disk Management MMC snap-in.See: http://www.jsifaq.com/SF/Tips/Tip.aspx?id=4711 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cluberti Posted September 19, 2007 Share Posted September 19, 2007 A second vote for using mount points. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyeball Posted September 19, 2007 Author Share Posted September 19, 2007 hmm i never thought of that lol, il give it a try and see if i like itcheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zxian Posted September 21, 2007 Share Posted September 21, 2007 Third vote for it. It's probably your best option, aside from using the various arrays for specific types of data. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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