phillyman2004 Posted July 6, 2005 Share Posted July 6, 2005 Ok i have two 250 gig harddrivesI at first wanted to Raid them together with Raid 0I wanted a Solid drive to work with, just to keep a file structure togetherBut today when i formated the drive thru windows disk manager, i saw the option to mount in on another driveCan i just do this insteadBasically make four 58 gig partions , and mount them in folders on the first drive where needed ?Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phillyman2004 Posted July 7, 2005 Author Share Posted 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 stuffthanx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark Posted July 7, 2005 Share Posted 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjc Posted July 7, 2005 Share Posted July 7, 2005 Ok i have two 250 gig harddrivesI at first wanted to Raid them together with Raid 0I wanted a Solid drive to work with, just to keep a file structure togetherBut today when i formated the drive thru windows disk manager, i saw the option to mount in on another driveCan i just do this insteadBasically 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) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-M- Posted July 7, 2005 Share Posted July 7, 2005 @mjcAre you sure a software RAID 0 is not possible on Windows XP? I mean, even software RAID 5 is possible, why not RAID 0?@phillymanOpen 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 ^^). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MHz Posted July 7, 2005 Share Posted July 7, 2005 Can i just do this insteadBasically 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted July 7, 2005 Share Posted July 7, 2005 Read these:http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...;309000&sd=techhttp://www.microsoft.com/resources/documen...c_overview.mspxhttp://www.d-silence.com/feature.php?id=246http://www.duxcw.com/digest/Howto/mb/abit/kx7-333/raid1.htmhttp://www.economicexpert.com/a/NTFS:junction:point.htmljaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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