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Serben
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 Posted: Sun, 18th Jun 2006 17:40 Post subject: Merging HD partitions |
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I have a 250 gig hard drive, and i recently bough another 250 gig one, and now i have a question. My current 250 gig one is divided into two partitions, one 50 Gb and one 200 GB. The reason for this is because i use the 50 GB one for the OS and all the installed apps and games, and the 200 GB one for storage of all the warez and movies and stuff. That way i can format the OS partition and reinstall new OS'es without losing all my games and movies and stuff. Now what i want to do is merge my current hard drive with my new one, into one 150 GB partition and one 350 Gb partition. Now my question is, is it possible to do that without losing all my data? Is there any partitioning app that i can use that will merge my existing 200 gig partition with the extra 150 gigs from the new hard drive without erasing all the data? Is this even possible? Because i'd really hate to lose all my stuff.
Thanks.
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| Posted: Sun, 18th Jun 2006 22:40 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Sun, 18th Jun 2006 22:58 Post subject: |
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Basically, you're talking about a volume that spans across 2 disks. AFAIK, this can be done using a RAID controller card (and configuring the card to run either a mirror or a JBOD array) or - and this I didn't try at all, so I could be wrong - by converting your disks to dynamic disks and partitioning them into dynamic volumes, which can span across multiple disks ( you might look at this as a "software RAID"). But in both cases the data is lost because you need to partition the disks and then format those partition, so the only way you can get it back is by using recovery software ( this might work up to a point, but if you save your recovered data to the same disks you are recovering from you'll eventually end up overwriting smth).
In one word - I don't think it's possible, either.
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| Posted: Mon, 19th Jun 2006 15:06 Post subject: |
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Is it me or is there some inconsistency in this setup: you have 1 partition of 50GB with O/S, apps and games so that, in case of a reinstall of the O/S, you only have to reformat the 50GB partition. Fine, but that way you will erase you games and apps on that same partition and that is exactly what you don't want........
Why you want to have such huge (read: inefficient) partitions in the first place I don't understand. Having games + apps on the same partition as your O/S won't help fighting fragmentation either....I can tell since I have more or less the same setup of disks.
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| Posted: Mon, 19th Jun 2006 20:24 Post subject: |
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two ways
raid
which costs the card(some mothearboards support this directly), and you lose all data if one drive fails - also, the techology requires the entire drives to be dedicated to this.. it will join the drives and display them as one 500G drive for windows and any other software
and then there's windows' dynamic disks feature
which is free, but without the speed benefits of raid, and you lose all data if one drive fails
so i would just slap you silly for even concidering such a fragile setup
make them into one large partitions on their own physical drives
splicing them across physical mediums is a horrible idea in case of drive failure
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