Combining Hard Drives in to one.

[mantislee]

I have a fax server that is running off of a old HP Vectra. This box has 2-2GB SCSI hard drives in it. One of the hard drives holds the OS and programs, while the other one is unallocated.

I've heard bits and peices of a way to make both disks dynamic disk and then combining them so I will have virtually a 4GB hard drive. How would I do this? Is this possible w/o rebuilding the machine?

I don't want to create a RAID and I'm not concerned about redundancy on this server.

Oh yea the issue is that I'm running low on disk space on the first 2GB hard drive (with 2GB who would have thunk it!?!) and I'd prefer to not have to rebuild this just to change to a larger hard drive.

Specs: Win2k SP2, Lightning Fax, The HD's are the older style pin ribbon connectors.

Thanks,
W Mantislee, MCP
Systems Administrator
mantislee@yahoo.com

 

[AlexIT]

You can for sure do this if you use RAID, maybe you can do this in dynamic disk too. Backup the machine (and check that your backup is good!) Now low-level format both disks and setup your RAID 0 (or fresh install win2k and create the dynamic disk.) Restore the backup you made.

I have done this much when taking a machine with two single SCSI drives and converting them to RAID 0 array.

Alex

 

[youngti]

Yes you can convert both disks from basic to dynamic if you have a minimum of 1 meg on each disk.

I believe that you would have to delete the volume on the disk 1 and then extend disk O onto Disk 1. This enables you to set the disks up as a spanned volume.

 

[Guest_imported]

you can also just image the hard drive put that image on a larger drive, and repartition it with partition magic or drive image without losing all the files.