How to combine 2 logical drives

[aatishbh]

Hello there !
I wanted to know if I can combine 2 logical drives (say C: and D: into C:\ ) ?

The operating system that I have is Windows 2000 advanced server. If anyone has an idea on how I can accomplish it, please tell me the steps to do them. I have NTFS format on the disks.

Please help me out soon !

Thanks,
Aats

 

[BrainSurgery]

I guess you want the two logical volumes to appear as one consistent volume.

If you do not want to reinstall your operating system, you will depend on using third-party software like partition magic. (I would not advise that option on any critical system that you may have).

 

[Lemon13]

spanned volume

http://www.microsoft.com/windows200...n/server/help/sag_diskconcepts_15.htm?id=3750

 

[BrainSurgery]

Lemon13:
As far as I understand this, what he want is to merge to logical drives into one logical drive.

This is not possible without either recreating his system disk (one of those volumes were hosting the OS) or using some kind of third party disk utility.

Dynamic volumes can be created from many physical disks yes, but you can´t create a dynamic volume by merging two already existing volumes.

I guess he has data on either of his two logical volumes that he is afraid of losing. If not he should only reinstall and configure his disk system as he please.

 

[ntinlin]

Volume mount point?

i.e. Having the D: drive appear as a folder of the C: drive.

 

[Lemon13]

hi @BrainSurgery
"Dynamic volumes can be created from many physical disks yes, but you can´t create a dynamic volume by merging two already existing volumes. " - right, but by merging the free space of two already existing volumes.

 

[hn4810]

Partition Magic should do the trick

 

[BrainSurgery]

Lemon13:
"right, but by merging the free space of two already existing volumes."

I am not quite sure that I understand that last statement from you. You can not merge two existing volumes to one, without destroying the data on them. That is from the operating system itself. It is possible though by using third party software like partition magic.

I guess what you really meant was that he is able to create a new volume by using free space on one or more dynamic disks. (Mark the difference between volume & disk).

Anyway this will not take him any further, as the original question was if he could merge to already existing volumes.

Tip to aatishbh:
ntinlin´s answer could be a solution to this ... mapping your d:\ drive to a folder on your c:\ disk instead of using a drive letter to identify your second volume. The only drawback (?) by using this method is that you have to refer to all data on your formerly known d:\ drive by using an exact path ... for instance c:\mymountpoint\mydata\andsoon ...