Twin Hardrives?

[Bad911]

Well, this is my first time as a windows vista user and frankly, i don't want to mess up my computer anymore than necessary. Does anyone know how to set the second Lenovo driver as default? I tried properties and such, but no go. Is there any way to "merge" the two drivers?

 

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[urbestfreind]

Switch which is the master and which is the slave (be careful, as you will most likely have to make adjustments to the jumpers go on the back of the drive before making the adjustment). This will switch the drive letters. Or, that's what I did on both of my older computers.

 

 

 

As far as merging them, well I wouldn't recommend that, because if one disk fails, you lose everything on both drives, which is bad....very bad....and rather probable, too. If you still want to do it, I can post a small guide, but unless you're sure about the risk, I won't say anything right now.

 

 

 

You could possibly use subst (if that's still usable in vista) and make the drive appear as a folder on the other drive, but I don't know how effective or safe that is, or if it will work in the first place.

[Iamdan]

What do you mean by default? If you mean run the operating system installed on that hard drive, you need to change the boot priority in your bios. (wait for the prompt and hit delete when you boot up)

 

 

 

I have 2 hard drives and don't use the master/slave jumpers - one has all my software and my computer boots on that, the other has all my files.

[InkofDeath]

What you're asking is Master & slave.

 

 

 

Currently Local Disk (C:) is the Master, or default HDD.

 

While Lenovo is the slave, or secondary HDD.

 

 

 

Everything will be booted from Local Disk (C:), including the O/S, and any drivers you have, to my knowledge.

 

 

 

I'm not sure but switching the Master & Slave can result in horrible problems, for you, and your computer. Switching them is done through BIOS & I think cords need to be changed physically.

 

 

 

Anyways some guides, which you should read:

 

http://www.smartcomputing.com/editorial ... /43r01.asp

 

http://www.techsupportforum.com/1211540-post3.html < -- A Post on a tech forum - May as well read the entire topic, it's relative to this in a way.

 

 

 

Any others:

 

http://www.google.ca/search?q=switching ... e=off&sa=2

[das1330]

From what it looks like there, you actually only have one hard drive in the computer. Lenovo partitioned the hard drive so that your operating system is on a separate drive. To answer your question, yes, by formatting the hard drive you can set it up as one large one, but it is not recommended.

[blade995]

From what it looks like there, you actually only have one hard drive in the computer. Lenovo partitioned the hard drive so that your operating system is on a separate drive. To answer your question, yes, by formatting the hard drive you can set it up as one large one, but it is not recommended.

 

 

 

If it's just one hard drive he can just expand the C: by deleting the D: partition and using that space to expand C:.

 

 

 

Nobody seemed to realize this is a laptop, most laptops don't have two hard drives. Which means the second one is either an external or a 2nd partition. Which means you can't raid partitions (which one person brought up). Mounting folders would be pointless if it's one drive also.