[Ham-Computers] Multiple drives, is there a way to . . .

[Philip, KO6BB]

Hi All,

I have what may seem like an odd question.  But here goes.  My XP-Pro SP3 
tower has two internal hard drives, an 80 and a 500.  OS and most programs 
reside on the 80GB, all my MP3 Old Time Radio files (~300GB) reside on the 
500GB "D" drive.  There is also a 320GB "H" external drive (Firewire) used 
as a backup drive for the MP3 stuff. That drive is, for all practical 
purposes full and needs replacement with a larger drive (probably a 500).

I can probably get another 320GB external drive much cheaper than a 500, or 
for that matter, an external drive "case" for the 320GB SATA drive that came 
out of the main machine when I installed the 500, making that a 3230 GB 
external drive.

My question is this.  Is there a way to make TWO external hard drives appear 
as one drive of the combined size of both?  That is, where I could just 
"copy" all files from the "D" drive to the two external drives without 
having to manually "split" the files and put some in drive "I: and the rest 
in drive "J", or whatever.  The reason I ask this is, I have a very 
"structured" folder hierarchy for all my Old time radio shows, by genre, 
program etc so that I can easily find something.  With over 36,000 shows I 
HAVE to have it well structured  as I'm often replacing files with ones that 
have better audio etc, and need to easily find what I have without having to 
do repetitive "file searches" ;^)


73 de Phil,  KO6BB
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