merge drives

[liamwibo]

is there a way to merge 2 drives in 1 so that i don't have to switch between drive's all the time

[Radium_Angel]

Like in a RAID? Yes, if your mobo supports it, but doing so wipes everything out in the process.

There is also this

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/storage-spaces/overview

 

[liamwibo]

Just now, Radium_Angel said:

Like in a RAID? Yes, if your mobo supports it, but doing so wipes everything out in the process.

There is also this

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/storage-spaces/overview

 

i have 1 full empty drive so if i wan't to merge it with my other drive to make it one big drive ia have to empty my main drive to?

 

 

[liamwibo]

3 minutes ago, Radium_Angel said:

Like in a RAID? Yes, if your mobo supports it, but doing so wipes everything out in the process.

There is also this

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/storage-spaces/overview

 

i want to merge this 2 so thats it's 1 big storage (1,5TB)

but if i click on the c drive the extend volume the option is grey 

[Radium_Angel]

4 minutes ago, liamwibo said:

but if i click on the c drive the extend volume the option is grey 

Yes, that's because the rest of the drive is full of stuff. The space would have to be empty for the drive to be enlarged.

[liamwibo]

1 minute ago, Radium_Angel said:

Yes, that's because the rest of the drive is full of stuff. The space would have to be empty for the drive to be enlarged.

is there a way to store this stuff until it's done

but windows is on the c drive and i looked it up and they do it whit 1 empty drive the drive they use as main drive still has stuff on it

 

[Radium_Angel]

2 minutes ago, liamwibo said:

is there a way to store this stuff until it's done

 

You should have a backup of your data to begin with.

BTW, read that Storager Spaces carefully, I am unsure if it works with drives of different sizes.

[Kilrah]

3 minutes ago, liamwibo said:

i looked it up and they do it whit 1 empty drive the drive they use as main drive still has stuff on it

Link?

 

[liamwibo]

Just now, Kilrah said:

Link?

 

this is one off the videos

[Kilrah]

Yes this is extending on the same drive, not another one. 

In your case to have only one volume with both drives you'd need spanning (RAID would be essentially useless since the drives are different sizes). That would need wiping everything and most mobo controllers don't even support it. 

[liamwibo]

1 minute ago, Kilrah said:

Yes this is extending on the same drive, not another one. 

In your case to have only one volume with both drives you'd need spanning (RAID would be essentially useless since the drives are different sizes). That would need wiping everything and most mobo controllers don't even support it. 

so it's not possible

 

[liamwibo]

2 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

Yes this is extending on the same drive, not another one. 

In your case to have only one volume with both drives you'd need spanning (RAID would be essentially useless since the drives are different sizes). That would need wiping everything and most mobo controllers don't even support it. 

 but here they merge 2 difrent drives?

 

 

[Kilrah]

Just now, liamwibo said:

but here they merge 2 difrent drives?

But neither of them is the boot drive, that still needs to be separate. 

 

[liamwibo]

Just now, Kilrah said:

But neither of them is the boot drive, that still needs to be separate. 

 

is there a way to seperate this

 

[Vishera]

8 minutes ago, liamwibo said:

is there a way to seperate this

 

Yes,just get a third drive in there and use RAID 0 with the 2 empty drives.

[liamwibo]

16 minutes ago, Vishera said:

Yes,just get a third drive in there and use RAID 0 with the 2 empty drives.

so i need 1 small drive for windows and then i can merge the 2 other drives

 

[Vishera]

3 minutes ago, liamwibo said:

so i need 1 small drive for windows and then i can merge the 2 other drives

 

No,You can't "merge" your boot drive without loosing data.

And you can't "merge" a big drive with a smaller drive without loosing capacity.

So i recommend you to use two 1TB drives,so you will need another 1TB drive.

If for example you were to "merge" a 512GB drive with a 1TB drive,you will loose 512GB because both drives have to be at the same capacity if you don't want to loose capacity.

 

[Levent]

A) Run Windows on a separate drive, set a logical spanned volume once windows is installed (data may not survive reinstalls).

B) Create a raid array (there are couple things you need to make sure in this case) using atleast two drives in RAID0.

 

Neither option allows you to retain your data. I have a Spanned volume created in Windows and Windows install is on a seperate device outside this array.

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