Combining 2 HDD??

[urielxvi]

Ok, i built a computer 2 years ago, and now im building a new one, but i wanna keep my old HDD, but since its almost full i want to add another one to my new computer.

Old HDD: IBM 60GB ATA100 7200rpm (95% full)
New HDD: IBM 80GB ATA100 7200rpm (brand new and empty)
MB: Shuttle AK37GTR (2 x ATA133 RAID 0, RAID1, RAID0+1 function)

Now im not sure how to do this, or if to use 2 IDE connectors, or to connect both HD into raid slots, etc...
But what i want to do is, Combine the 2 harddrives, so i have like 1 big harddrive, with my old data, plus the extra space with the empty hard drive( 140GB with 45% used)...Is this possible, i think its called "disk spanning" or somthing, any help, please?

 

[LumberJack]

Yes... if you setup a Raid 0 array this would do what you want. There are some problems. One, typically you need to have two drives of the same size. Second. you will have to end up formatting when you setup the array.

Why do you want one huge drive anyway. It's not good for continuous file swapping.. you have to constantly defrag. I say keep them seperate... that way you can also format independently when needed or when windows decides it want's to kill your data 😉

To err is human... to really screw things up you need a computer!