I wanted to install XP and use 2 hard drives (1 40 gb, the second 52gb) as one, so I can get 102gb. I have parition magic, but I dont know if I set it up right.

I erased 1 hard drive and installed xp on it. When xp was setup I reformated my second hard drive with parition magic, and now it seems to work. Did I set it up right? so now there is a C and D physical hard drives. Is there a way to combine both into one drive or did I do it correctly.

I'm wondering how I can install programs. Will I have registry errors because I didnt combine them or install XP on the second drive? I dont remember installing xp in the 2nd hard drive. Do I need to or having the first hard drive installed with XP is enough?

Sorry if this sounds confusing. I'm kinda clue less as well. This is my first try at this.

Hi Light,

There is a way to ake both drives as "one" but not really "together"

You can mount D as a folder on your C drive, but that just means C:\D Drive a has 52gb limit, and the rest of C is still limited to 40gb.

This is the only way it is possible.

Please let me know if this is what you're after - or if that's confusing at all.

You dont need to combine them to install anything. You dont need to install windows on both either. You can install windows on one then add another later and as long as you have the jumpers on the back of the hard drive its self in the right places. set the HD with windows on it as master and the other one as slave. You can then install anything to either one and it should work fine.
If you was to get a bus cable ( the cable that connects your HD to your motherboard) that had ten connectors on it you could have 10 HD's, all having diffrent name/letter.

This is what I needed to know thanks. My D drive was orginally a backup drive, but I never back up so I reformated it and now I can use it to install anything its the slave drive.

I was just concered because I didnt know if windows had to be installed in both, and concered that installing programs inthe D: drive will mess up the registry some how.

My slave drive is larger than my master drive. Would it be okay to install programs into my slave drive? would the speed of the programs be the same or slower than installing it on my master drive?


Could I install XP in my slave drive rather than my master drive?

I guess I could probably swith them, but I'm not sure how to do that yet.

It's fine that the slave is bigger than the master and it is perfectly ok to install programs to the slave. Everything should run at the same speed.