Making two HDD's appears as one

2 x 250GB HDD installed on Vista Ultimate PC. Disk 0 has MBR and data, disk 1
is empty. Do I simply convert both disks to dynamic? Is there any risk to the
HDD with the MBR? Will both HDD's then appear as a continuous volume?

Yes.
Dynamic disk

A physical hard disk formatted for dynamic storage, which includes support
for volumes that can span multiple disks.

You are trying to do 'striping'. Note the use of the word 'formatted'

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"RevDave" <> wrote in message
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> 2 x 250GB HDD installed on Vista Ultimate PC. Disk 0 has MBR and data,
> disk 1
> is empty. Do I simply convert both disks to dynamic? Is there any risk to
> the
> HDD with the MBR? Will both HDD's then appear as a continuous volume?

Thx. Re yr comment: Note the use of the word 'formatted'. Both HDD's are
already formatted. Will conversion to dynamic format them again? Hopefully
not or else disk 0 will lose data and MBR.

"Mark L. Ferguson" wrote:

> Yes.
> Dynamic disk
>
> A physical hard disk formatted for dynamic storage, which includes support
> for volumes that can span multiple disks.
>
> You are trying to do 'striping'. Note the use of the word 'formatted'
>
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> "RevDave" <> wrote in message
> news:2FC7BD09-6FA5-4085-8E43-...
> > 2 x 250GB HDD installed on Vista Ultimate PC. Disk 0 has MBR and data,
> > disk 1
> > is empty. Do I simply convert both disks to dynamic? Is there any risk to
> > the
> > HDD with the MBR? Will both HDD's then appear as a continuous volume?
>

Convert Basic to dynamic disk. Do i lose all data? or what happens ...:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/in...9104602AAnm2ie

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"RevDave" <> wrote in message
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> Thx. Re yr comment: Note the use of the word 'formatted'. Both HDD's are
> already formatted. Will conversion to dynamic format them again? Hopefully
> not or else disk 0 will lose data and MBR.
>
> "Mark L. Ferguson" wrote:
>
>> Yes.
>> Dynamic disk
>>
>> A physical hard disk formatted for dynamic storage, which includes
>> support
>> for volumes that can span multiple disks.
>>
>> You are trying to do 'striping'. Note the use of the word 'formatted'
>>
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>> interface.
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>> Mark L. Ferguson
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>> "RevDave" <> wrote in message
>> news:2FC7BD09-6FA5-4085-8E43-...
>> > 2 x 250GB HDD installed on Vista Ultimate PC. Disk 0 has MBR and data,
>> > disk 1
>> > is empty. Do I simply convert both disks to dynamic? Is there any risk
>> > to
>> > the
>> > HDD with the MBR? Will both HDD's then appear as a continuous volume?
>>