Creating a logical disk in Windows XP from two hard drives.?

Question

I have a PC that I use for storage, and for playing downloaded content on my TV; it has two 40gb IDE hard drives which are on the same IDE channel. Is there a way in Windows XP to create one logical 80gb hard drive from the two without setting them up in some kind of RAID array?

Instead of having a 40GB C: drive and a 40GB D: drive I would just like to have one 80GB C: drive.

Is there some way to do this with mount points or anything? I'm also willing to have a small (6GB or so) C: drive with just windows on it, and create a ~74GB D: drive.

I'm shooting for seamlessness, so that I can just dump all kinds of files into one folder without having to disseminate them between two hard drives.

Answer 1

Short answer, Yes.

Longer answer:

Natively windows cannot do it. However if you get yourself a copy of Partition Magic or even the opensource available on any Modern Linux Live CD. Obviously partiton magic would be the easiest of the ways to get this done.