Adding HD using raid span: can I keep the installed windows?

[ConQueso 0]

Wondering if I can add space to my existing System drive without reinstalling windows. Can I just configure the new drive as part of a span of the c drive, or is this not possible without a reformat/OS install?

[sapiens74 0]

don't think you can span the system drive.

 

Let me check i'll get back on that

 

You can however move the pagefile to the raid drive

[sapiens74 0]

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3BQ308424

 

 

Can't span the boot partition

[Tomay 0]

You can also mount a drive to an empty ntfs folder in disk management. You can then put my documents or whatever is taking a lot of space there.

 

If you have a raid capable motherboard or a raid capable controller.

You could ghost it to another drive and then do a span and ghost it back. It would require a total of 3 drives or you could save the ghost partition to a cd (or to more cd's)

 

If you're using a new raid card make sure you install drivers first, before ghost, otherwise it may not boot.

[sapiens74 0]

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You can also mount a drive to an empty ntfs folder in disk management. You can then put my documents or whatever is taking a lot of space there.

If you have a raid capable motherboard or a raid capable controller.
You could ghost it to another drive and then do a span and ghost it back. It would require a total of 3 drives or you could save the ghost partition to a cd (or to more cd's)

If you're using a new raid card make sure you install drivers first, before ghost, otherwise it may not boot.

Thats a good point

I run my docs off my server. Saves lots of space