it there any way ti make it as 240 hardrive when go in to menary it just say only have 80gb
2007-08-06 02:49:49 · 7 answers · asked by glynn T 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Add-ons
As they are two separate physical drives, there is no way to combine them into a single drive.
2007-08-06 02:52:59 · answer #1 · answered by dewcoons 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
format the 160 with NTFS (assuming you have 2000, xp or vista) and slave it. If' it's IDE, the 80 as primary and 160 as storage is perfect. Back all files up to the 160.
If it's SATA, doesn't matter which is primary so just do the same thing.
Prefer to have bigger drive for warehousing and smaller driver for primary running OS. This way your warehouse won't get OS bugs.
You install more than 25-30 gigs of software on any drive, you'll probably have software conflicts either way. This is why I use the smaller for primary.
2007-08-06 03:28:54 · answer #2 · answered by gil.baca 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The 80 gig drive will be your primary drive. It should have windows (or whatever O/S you are using), and maybe your programs installed on it. It should have its jumper set to 'master', and it should show up in your BIOS.
If the 160 gig drive is installed correctly (jumper set to slave, and set to 'autodetect' in BIOS) then it will show up as a seperate drive - you can use it for data, that way if you ever have to format and reload windows, you can leave the 160 alone, and everything will be there.
I think there is a program called 'bigdisk' or something that will let you see both drives as one big 240 gig drive, but there is really no reason to do that.
2007-08-06 02:59:48 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are two separate hard drives and If I am following what you are saying correctly than you need to set the second hard drive up as a new partition.
2007-08-06 03:04:37 · answer #4 · answered by Cixelsyd 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
If they are formatted NTFS you can convert them to dynamic disks and have the volume sizes you want although there will be no partitions in the normal sense.
2007-08-06 02:59:58 · answer #5 · answered by Del Piero 10 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if you are using a IDE cable connector for your hard drive(44 pins). then the answer is "no". if you are using a SATA hard drive, the answer is yes. but you will need the software of the motherboard and you got to make it as a "Stripe"(2hard drives in1).
2007-08-06 02:53:25 · answer #6 · answered by xxvietxthugzxx 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try reversing the order,the master should be dominate.
2007-08-06 02:58:40 · answer #7 · answered by yp_will_chicago_369 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋