Configure 2 Harddisk as one Volume

[NaijaMan]

I recently upgraded my Windows NT 4.0 server by adding a new harddisk. The original hard disk had a capacity of 1.2GB while the new one has a Capacity of 10GB. I would like to merge these two harddisk so that they appear as a single drive C: of 11.2GB to the operating systems and applications. Is there any way I can achieve this?.

I know with SQL server it is possible to create a database/volume that spans more than 1 harddisk, I want to achieve the same thing with Windows NT Server 4.0. Please advise.

Naijaman

 

[Grenage]

I know that you can do this using RAID Striping but the drives need to be pretty much the same, I don't know if it's possible with 2 different Drives.

 

[djhawthorn]

You can't, or at least not with the system partition. NT 4.0 can only support a 7.8GB (max. (I think)) system partition. It also has to be on a stand-alone drive... it can't be on a software RAID volume. (Not sure how a hardware RAID solution would go).

Sorry . MCSE NT4/W2K

 

[PeteH2]

I'd certainly agree with Dhawthorn. Place your WinNT installation and all the apps on the old 1.2Gb drive and use the new drive for the data. RAID and other disk redundancy measures do require identical disk hardware.

Although it is possible to split one physical disk into multiple logical ones, it's not possible to do it the other way round.

HTH

Pete...

 

[pank]

Clone the 1 gig drive to the 10gig with Norton Ghost Corporate and away you go

the nt system will be none the wiser if the small drive is your primary boot http:\\

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[caddnima]

About the 7.8 GB Max for NT...

I have 40 GB running on a Pentium 133 on NT 4.0 as a backup server...

Pank is right... clone it to your 10 and just use your 1.2GB to back up your OS. It is more safer.

May I ask whats wrong with the config right now? I think this would be better if you could seperate the OS to one drive and another drive for the date... anything happens to the OS part, you can alway format it and restore from a cloned image. In that way you dont touch the data drive.