Install two hard drives as one.?

Question

I have three Hard drives, Two of them are 1.5 gig, and one is a 540.8MB. Its a old P3 490MHZ. I would like to install XP pro on it, as I have a old copy of pro that I am not using, ( from a PC that the Processor turned to a lump of goo).

I have never tried to make the pc see all three drives as one yet, What do I need to do to accomplish this task? (details details details)..

I know I need some kind of raid driver, and I know that when installing XP it says press F6 if you need to install a raid driver...

Thats about all I know,

Answer 1

i wouldnt recommend installing xp on an old computer... it will work fine if the harddisk is large because large harddisks are way faster than old noisy ones...loading xp using the specs you provided will take like 20 minutes...

Answer 2

This computer probably won't handle what your trying to do here. 1.5 Gig HDD? Wow, that's incredibly small! So, as I see it you have a total of 3.5GB of HDD space. A 1.5GB of that would be taken up by installing WinXP Pro! So, your back to 2GB of usable HDD space. Save yourself some headaches and install a 40-80GB HDD ATA 100/133 and put the copy of WinXP Pro on that. That's way easier and less expensive than doing something with RAID setups and other hardware (RAID compatible mobo or PCI card, processor, memory, etc.) that you will need to utilize a mere 3.5GB total drive space! I would spend 46 bucks for a 40GB HDD-OEM (drive only). Also I would boost the memory to 512MB and you'd have a nice machine for awhile. Here are the MINIMUM requirements for installing WinXP Pro.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/evaluation/sysreqs.mspx

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822140118

Answer 3

set draw close hardpersistent as draw close upload slave cd rom set secondary hd as slave and dvd rom as draw close once you've a dvd burner you do not pick to cd drives on an similar cable as this would reason information loss

Answer 4

yeah you could have two internal hard drives, two graphics cards, two sticks of RAM, BUT they must all be compatible with the motherboard of your computer.