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Combining Drives without formatting them


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This should be solved with a few lines of c# but im wondering if there is an application out there to do this.

I have 10 1.5TB drives without any form of RAID because i want simple expandable storage that i can upgrade at any time without formatting. Naturally my movie collection now spans 3 drives leaving me with

d:/Movies
e:/Movies
f:/Movies

Im looking for a way to combine all these drives into a single share for easy browsing . Twonky Combines them but im looking for a way to output them to a share.

Any ideas ? Thanks.

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This should be solved with a few lines of c# but im wondering if there is an application out there to do this.

I have 10 1.5TB drives without any form of RAID because i want simple expandable storage that i can upgrade at any time without formatting. Naturally my movie collection now spans 3 drives leaving me with

d:/Movies
e:/Movies
f:/Movies

Im looking for a way to combine all these drives into a single share for easy browsing . Twonky Combines them but im looking for a way to output them to a share.

Any ideas ? Thanks.

IF you are using windows 7 you can just combine them into 1 library without actually combining them. Right Click on your videos library and go to properties just add these directories into the list and all the contents will show up in the videos library.

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