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Striped volume over the boot drive
Hello,
I have two identical 500GB hard drives, one of which has Windows installed on it along with my programs and another is just a standard disk with other stuff on it (music, videos, etc...). I've been wanting to create a 50GB striped volume over both drives to benefit from faster writing, so I've created two 50GB volumes out of each hard drive respectively, as follows (C:\ is my boot drive with Windows on it):
However when I right click on the bottom-most unallocated volume, I cannot select Striped Volume (or anything else for that matter - only Simple Volume). And when I right click on the other volume, I can select Striped Volume but I cannot choose to add the other volume to the striped array.
Is there a problem here? I would've thought it would be possible to create a striped volume out of two unallocated volumes regardless of the hard drive they are on (provided they are on different hard drives which is the case here). Or am I missing something about basic/dynamic disks, etc...?
Thanks for your input everyone.