Breakthrough Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 (edited) I have two hard drives (neither is my primary, OS HDD). Let's say that each hard drive has, in the root, a folder called "Media" with various large files. Is it possible for me to mount each drive into a folder on the OS HDD so I can see the files from both HDD's at once? I don't want to use JBOD/RAID-0 for the fear that one fails, corrupting the filesystems in both... Is there an optimal solution for this? EDIT: I want to display the contents of two DIFFERENT folders in one (I don't care if it's read-only from my end, as long as I can see the files of both directories in one!). Edited March 27, 2009 by Breakthrough Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Observer Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 windows 7 can help you out with this, other than that i dont think you can mount 2 hard drive into one folder, as windows will not know what hard drive to place the files into! what about getting a third one, put them into RAID5 and then mount that to a folder, im about to do that 2morrow when the comptuer shop opens up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hjf288 Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 http://www.technospot.net/blogs/how-to-mak...vailble-in-one/ This should help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Breakthrough Posted March 27, 2009 Author Share Posted March 27, 2009 Is there any way to do this in XP? I am NOT changing my operating system (driver incompatibility with certain hardware on this PC)... hjf288; that looks EXACTLY like what I want. Only thing is the OS... :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hjf288 Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/205524/en-us http://www.pearlmagik.com/winbolic/ http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinte...s/bb896768.aspx Might also work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Observer Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 http://www.technospot.net/blogs/how-to-mak...vailble-in-one/This should help shot! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hjf288 Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 shot! ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Breakthrough Posted March 27, 2009 Author Share Posted March 27, 2009 Ah, see, this is the same problem as before. That's similar to mounting drives to other folders - I knew how to do that already. I want to display the contents of two DIFFERENT folders in one (I don't care if it's read-only from my end, as long as I can see the files of both directories in one!). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 Not too well-versed in this, but can't you just create Dynamic disks with one volume that spans across the 2 physical drives? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Observer Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 ? slang for nice one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Breakthrough Posted March 27, 2009 Author Share Posted March 27, 2009 Not too well-versed in this, but can't you just create Dynamic disks with one volume that spans across the 2 physical drives? My issue was what if one of the drives gets corrupted? Isn't the MFT stored on a single drive? If one of the drives failed in that scenario, there would be data loss on both HDD's... :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Observer Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 My issue was what if one of the drives gets corrupted? Isn't the MFT stored on a single drive?If one of the drives failed in that scenario, there would be data loss on both HDD's... :( thats why we have BACKUP DISKS! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hjf288 Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 Ah, see, this is the same problem as before. That's similar to mounting drives to other folders - I knew how to do that already.I want to display the contents of two DIFFERENT folders in one (I don't care if it's read-only from my end, as long as I can see the files of both directories in one!). Guess you could write a script/bat file to create a symlink for every file/directory in both folders into the Folder you want to view both with Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Breakthrough Posted March 27, 2009 Author Share Posted March 27, 2009 Guess you could write a script/bat file to create a symlink for every file/directory in both folders into the Folder you want to view both with Wouldn't that be pretty slow/resource intensive on Explorer whenever I viewed the folder? I just want a way to view the files in two directories as if they exist in the same directory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Observer Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 Wouldn't that be pretty slow/resource intensive on Explorer whenever I viewed the folder? I just want a way to view the files in two directories as if they exist in the same directory. not going to happen. unless you move to vista or windows 7. XP is too old. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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