Making two HDD's appears as one

[RevDave]

2 x 250GB HDD installed on Vista Ultimate PC. Disk 0 has MBR and data, disk 1
is empty. Do I simply convert both disks to dynamic? Is there any risk to the
HDD with the MBR? Will both HDD's then appear as a continuous volume?

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

Yes.
Dynamic disk

A physical hard disk formatted for dynamic storage, which includes support
for volumes that can span multiple disks.

You are trying to do 'striping'. Note the use of the word 'formatted'

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[RevDave]

Thx. Re yr comment: Note the use of the word 'formatted'. Both HDD's are
already formatted. Will conversion to dynamic format them again? Hopefully
not or else disk 0 will lose data and MBR.

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

Convert Basic to dynamic disk. Do i lose all data? or what happens ...:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080329104602AAnm2ie

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