moving spanned volumes?

[N0n g3n3r1c us3rn4m3]

just came accross a rig running windows 7 x86 on a x64 i was hoping to switch the os but it has a has spanned volume (not the C drive) would i b able to reinstall the os and keep the spanned volume intact?

 

[Tedster]

Can you explain further what you mean by spanned volumes?

Screenshots or it didn't happen/it's harder to understand

[othertomperson]

You cannot install the OS on a spanned volume -- nor can the spanned volume occupy (part of) a disc that also contains the OS.

 

I wish you could, but given the inherent reliability issues of what is comparable to RAID 0 but without the speed benefits, I can see Microsoft's point in doing this.

[N0n g3n3r1c us3rn4m3]

You cannot install the OS on a spanned volume -- nor can the spanned volume occupy (part of) a disc that also contains the OS.

 

I wish you could, but given the inherent reliability issues of what is comparable to RAID 0 but without the speed benefits, I can see Microsoft's point in doing this.sorry the "C" drive has OS on it and then it also has two other drives thats have been spanned by windows drive "d

the system has 3 drives in it 1 is being used as the "c" drive and two are spanned making the "d' drive im wondering if i can us the "d" drive on another os with out loosing the "spanned drive"

[othertomperson]

the system has 3 drives in it 1 is being used as the "c" drive and two are spanned making the "d' drive im wondering if i can us the "d" drive on another os with out loosing the "spanned drive"

 

Oh I see. You might be able to, but I don't know. Dynamic Drives don't work with old versions of Windows, let alone other OSes entirely. Try it.