Vista - Help with JBOD enclosure

11-01-2007

I just bought an enclosure that automatically tries to do JBOD when both HD
slots are occupied. Currently, only one of my drives shows up in My
Computer. I discovered using Disk Management that both drives show up as a
single 2-partition disk and the second drive appears appended to the first as
unallocated space even though they are both NTFS-formatted. Can I expand the
first drive/partition through the second without losing the data on the
second drive?

11-02-2007

Hi,

No, if you expand the first disk's volume onto the second, it will wipe
existing data. You might instead try the option to import foreign disks.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"Tobin" <Tobin@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Quote:

>I just bought an enclosure that automatically tries to do JBOD when both HD
> slots are occupied. Currently, only one of my drives shows up in My
> Computer. I discovered using Disk Management that both drives show up as
> a
> single 2-partition disk and the second drive appears appended to the first
> as
> unallocated space even though they are both NTFS-formatted. Can I expand
> the
> first drive/partition through the second without losing the data on the
> second drive?

**Dzomlija** · 11-02-2007

Quote: Originally Posted by Tobin

I just bought an enclosure that automatically tries to do JBOD when both HD slots are occupied. Currently, only one of my drives shows up in My Computer. I discovered using Disk Management that both drives show up as a single 2-partition disk and the second drive appears appended to the first as unallocated space even though they are both NTFS-formatted. Can I expand the first drive/partition through the second without losing the data on the second drive?

Three of my hard drives are spanned using JBOD. Windows sees only a single volume of 530GB. If I where to disable the JBOD funtion, then all data will be lost. When I initially created the JBOD setup, I made full backups of all three drives first because the BIOS warned me that the data on these drives will be wiped.

11-01-2007	#1 (permalink)
Tobin n/a posts	Help with JBOD enclosure I just bought an enclosure that automatically tries to do JBOD when both HD slots are occupied. Currently, only one of my drives shows up in My Computer. I discovered using Disk Management that both drives show up as a single 2-partition disk and the second drive appears appended to the first as unallocated space even though they are both NTFS-formatted. Can I expand the first drive/partition through the second without losing the data on the second drive?
My System Specs

11-02-2007	#2 (permalink)
Rick Rogers n/a posts	Re: Help with JBOD enclosure Hi, No, if you expand the first disk's volume onto the second, it will wipe existing data. You might instead try the option to import foreign disks. -- Best of Luck, Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Windows help - www.rickrogers.org My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com "Tobin" <Tobin@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:9858866E-3EBB-4E81-903F-A320E5C531D2@xxxxxx Quote: >I just bought an enclosure that automatically tries to do JBOD when both HD > slots are occupied. Currently, only one of my drives shows up in My > Computer. I discovered using Disk Management that both drives show up as > a > single 2-partition disk and the second drive appears appended to the first > as > unallocated space even though they are both NTFS-formatted. Can I expand > the > first drive/partition through the second without losing the data on the > second drive?
My System Specs

11-02-2007	#3 (permalink)
Dzomlija Windows Vista x64 Ultimate 2,217 posts	Re: Help with JBOD enclosure Quote: Originally Posted by Tobin I just bought an enclosure that automatically tries to do JBOD when both HD slots are occupied. Currently, only one of my drives shows up in My Computer. I discovered using Disk Management that both drives show up as a single 2-partition disk and the second drive appears appended to the first as unallocated space even though they are both NTFS-formatted. Can I expand the first drive/partition through the second without losing the data on the second drive? Three of my hard drives are spanned using JBOD. Windows sees only a single volume of 530GB. If I where to disable the JBOD funtion, then all data will be lost. When I initially created the JBOD setup, I made full backups of all three drives first because the BIOS warned me that the data on these drives will be wiped.
My System Specs

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