<SparTacuS> Posted October 23, 2006 Share Posted October 23, 2006 In the days of DOS and FAT32/16 it was possible to make one drive appear as a diectory of another - effectively making multiple drives appear as one (bigger) drive.The command escapes me now (a senior moment) and I was wondering if such a thing is possible under XP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jondercik Posted October 23, 2006 Share Posted October 23, 2006 not under XP, server can though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
<SparTacuS> Posted October 23, 2006 Author Share Posted October 23, 2006 (edited) Thanks jondercik.For anyone interested - The DOS command that my old grey cells were refusing to recall was:JOIN d: [d:path]JOIN d: [/D]Purpose: Allows access to the directory structure and files of a drive through a directory on a different drive. (In DOS Version 6, this program is stored on the DOS supplemental disk.)After joining a drive to a directory, the files stored on the joined drives can be accessed as if they were on the specified directory. Anybody know of a 3rd party way to do this?________________________________________________________________________________________________I guess I should have searched more B4 asking - The answer is to convert the disks to dynamic disks and create a spanned volume.MS links for this;Convert to dynamicSpanned volumes Edited October 23, 2006 by <SparTacuS> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zxian Posted October 23, 2006 Share Posted October 23, 2006 not under XP, server can thoughXP can do this. You can mount the partition in an empty NTFS directory to get more space.To do mount a drive into an empty NTFS folder. If your system drive isn't NTFS already, make it so by typing the following command into a command prompt: convert %systemdrive% /FS:NTFS Create a folder on the system drive. Let's call it C:\Other for now. Go to right-click on My Computer and select Manage. Select Disk Management and find the second drive. Right click on the partition on the second drive and select Change Drive Letter and Paths Click on Add and select Mount in the following emtpy NTFS folder. Browse to the location of C:\Other. Click Ok until you're back at Disk Management, and then close that window You're done!You can also use Junction Points, but those are a little more complicated I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LLXX Posted October 24, 2006 Share Posted October 24, 2006 There's also something called RAID, if you want to do it with hardware... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cluberti Posted October 24, 2006 Share Posted October 24, 2006 You can use diskpart from the command line, or you can also use the resource kit utility mountvol (on 2000 and higher). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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