Question about Mounting Partitions with XP

**phillyman2004** · July 6, 2005

Ok i have two 250 gig harddrives

I at first wanted to Raid them together with Raid 0

I wanted a Solid drive to work with, just to keep a file structure together

But today when i formated the drive thru windows disk manager, i saw the option to mount in on another drive

Can i just do this instead

Basically make four 58 gig partions , and mount them in folders on the first drive where needed ?

Thanks

**phillyman2004** · July 7, 2005

Common Someone must know about this , I tried google , but anything i type with the word mount or partition , brings up linux stuff

thanx

**mark** · July 7, 2005

I can't answere your question but give your post a little time. The person(s) who can help you may not have gotten to your question yet.

Cheers,

DL

**mjc** · July 7, 2005

Ok i have two 250 gig harddrives
I at first wanted to Raid them together with Raid 0
I wanted a Solid drive to work with, just to keep a file structure together
But today when i formated the drive thru windows disk manager, i saw the option to mount in on another drive
Can i just do this instead
Basically make four 58 gig partions , and mount them in folders on the first drive where needed ?
Thanks
<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

you could certainly do that, but if you want it to be solid(reliable?) you should use raid 1.

you cannot make a raid0 in software in windows, you need to use hardware or "hard"ware raid. ("hard"ware being the stuff that usually comes on motherboards or costs less than $100)

**-M-** · July 7, 2005

@mjc

Are you sure a software RAID 0 is not possible on Windows XP? I mean, even software RAID 5 is possible, why not RAID 0?

@phillyman

Open the computer management (compmgmt.msc) and select disk manager (I think it's called "disk manager", isn't it?). The right-click a hard-disk in the list at the bottom and select "Convert into dynamic disk" (or whatever MS called that). Then you might be able to create a new drive with RAID 0, but I am NOT SURE about this because I couldn't test it. I only know that it's possible to create a RAID 5 array like this (though to do that you have to hack some files ^^).

**MHz** · July 7, 2005

Can i just do this instead
Basically make four 58 gig partions , and mount them in folders on the first drive where needed ?
Thanks
<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Certainly can. This makes it easier to maintain the drive, with smaller volumes. Instead of giving them drive letters, you assign them empty folders to mount to. Basically, it is a junction point. I have a 200 gb drive, with 4 volumes. Each is mounted as a folder.