Combine Multiple Hard Drives Into One Big Volume

This option lets you combine your old or new computer Hard drives to create one larger volume.

Say you have 4 x 250GB hard drives, instead of purchasing a 1TB drive you can combine the ones you currently have to create that lager drive you are looking for.

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Q & A
Can I combine multiple SSD's? yes.

[zenoxy]

How do I do this when one of the drives has data on it?

[MrMoon-hypn]

For anyone using ssd's if that's what you want, just leave an empty unallocated partition on it. So the drive lasts as long as possible.

[leesuschrist]

Thank you for this video. You were very clear and concise with your directions, which is a hard thing to find on youtube.

[markmeloney]

I can't click extend volume (it's gray, not black font).. does that mean my drives are incompatible? the second drive is unallocated ..

[imJONIJONY]

I can't click the extend volume or new spanned volume options. What do I do?

[gorkemgolpek]

Thank you so much for this simple yet valuable Windows trick! I have four questions though? After 2 different hard drives combined as one (hard-drive), Is it possible to create equally- sized-partion on the merged (hard-drive)? My second question is which way is better for the stability of the operating system? In the first case scenario, spanning appears to be more practical as long as different hard drives are equally in good condition. Should one of them fail, the system will crush and you lose everything. I assume creating a Back-Up to the most stable configuration settings of Windows seems to be not an option at this point! I mean, even restoration point will not be a much of help, right? In the second case scenario: Let's say I have 750 GB hard drive %100 in a healthy state to be combined with 300 GB of hard drive which is vulnerable for installing an new OS from scratch because of its bad sectors; however, it still holds preety good in keeping other types of data and some useful software programs I make use of from time to time. I use this as an external hard drive. Is it feasible to connect these two different hard drives after a clean format. I want to get rid of those bad sectors, but I don't know how to fix that hard drive for bad sectors. I heard with the help of some hard drive optimization tools, there might be a way to get rid of those bad sectors at the expense of wiping out some space off the troubled hard-drive by filling-out with zeros or ones. Provided that you know there is any good fix for this problem, let me know please. The last and the most important question is that one whole big volume out of this 2 hard drive, could we possibly form and use this extended or spanned (hard-drive) for data striping and/or mirroring purposes. What are the odds in creating JBOD and RAID disks thanks to the combination of equally-sized volume of two(2) combined hard drives. I had some experience with IDE hard drives but I have never had any experience with the Sata II and Sata III. Not to mention the new storage technology SSD along with PCI-E and M2 slot compatible NVMMs. What are the chances in an attempt to lucked out on this challenge in a miserable situation like this. To me, if not more than a fantasy but a dream. Let me know What do you think? Please translate soon!

[saurabhrai]

Hi, extended volume is disabled ? Any help

[Instifly]

is it possible to do this with my main drive? I have two drives, one that has all of my stuff on it (including the os) and one that is new. I want to combine the two into one. Is this possible? I would toy around with this, but I don't really have a good way of backing everything up

[Blakehx]

Thanks for the video! I have two laptops each with 256GB drives that are almost full! How can I upgrade the newer laptop with my brand new 1TB drive, combining all the data from both laptops? Thanks!

[leandrocarvalho]

I have a 4 bay Mediasonic Probox HF2-SU3S2 enclosure with four 3 TB HDD using USB 3.0 access, but I only can see each drive separately. When trying to create spanned volume, it says: "The operation is not supported by the object". It's probably because it is USB drive. Is there a way to join the four HDDs of the 4 bay enclosure into only 1 volume letter using windows 10 or by any other mean?

[zft]

how can i make c drive the only one? and with all the space is in it?

[IglooCrafter]

I was doing the second method and got a "There is no enough space available on the disks to complete this operation". Is there a fix?

[arielcaballero]

Very clear, very helpful. Thank you so much!

[theddrumdrummer]

This is interesting, but did not answer the question that I had. I have an old 1TB hard drive in an old computer, a 2TB hard drive in my new computer that I want to copy over to a single new 6TB hard drive that I bought. How do I go about doing this? I want to make sure I understand what to do before I do it. Thank you!

[SunnyMeadows]

100th is it possible to do the same on a Apple computer well if it is hears my tutorial. Go to Finder then click on paragon and then go to Hard Drive Management then right click on any one of the Hard Drives and then click on extend volume then click next to the paragon and then just at the second Hard Drive the just click add and then the volume would be much bigger than normal which is a good thing and then click on next and finish the paragon and after that you would have a bigger hard drive much bigger

[sahil-xr]

Thanks man thanks alot
You solve my big problem
God bless you

[redgeoblaze]

I'm planning on upgrading soon by making my default an M.2 with the OS, and running a bunch of 1TB Ssds together like this. My PC can hold 4, so that'll be like an endgame for me.

[brianlasker]

I have to do this before having data on them?

[basook]

can you combine two HDD if where is data is in it?

[retror.d.]

I have several hard drives with games on them. Can I merge the hard drives without deleting all my stuff on the drives?