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Combining Disc Space

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by melody

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How do I combine the free space on two or more partitioned drives to create one drive with alot of free space?

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by thechas

If the partitions are on the same physical drive, the simplest way is to use a utility such as Partition Magic.

If you want to combine different physical drives, the task is tougher.
There used to be a utility called One Big Drive that created asingle drive out of all of the partitions on a drive. I haven't seen it for a number of years.

You also need to take the OS and file system into account.
If you are running 9X, and FAT32, then there are practical limits on physical drive size.Realistically, you may not be able to have a single drive of over 60GB on most 9X systems.

If you are running W2K, or XP, you might be able to stripe the volumes of "matched" drives set up as a RAID set.

Chas

by gigelul

In addition to answer1: stripe set don't create a bigger volume. Volume set make sum of volumes.

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