m17x hard drives

hiya,

I was just wondering, the laptop has two hard disks, suprisingly named disk 0 and disk 1. I would like them all to be one disk on the laptop though as at the moment they are two disks. I think this is called dynamic disks, but I have no idea what to do.
I'm running window 7 home premium, and after some research you need to have ultimate to make dynamic disks.. I'm just wondering if there is any way to do it for free, or if it is even worth doing.. I can't remember if when it came out the factory it was all one disk or not.

 

Are you sure you did not buy the system as a raid 0? 2 hard drives in Raid 0 Which will show as One hard drives. My system which is Raid 0 which is dual 620 7200rpm. Shows up as One hard drive 1.2 tb hard drive.

It basicly like two cpus working as one. But as hard drives. Which I heard is faster.

When you boot up check your bios button it could be anything but the computer would show it as f1 to f12 You hit it before it hit windows bootup screen and look up bios screen.

 

Yep thats what I want to do but I can't work out how to creat raid 0.. Help please I don't understand the bios settings and don't fancy breaking my laptop just yet

 

Your going to need to go into the BIOS, turn raid on and then reinstall your OS and programs, because the data is split between the two HDDs. So you may want to back up your data. Or you can do what I do, use one drive for programs and the OS, and use the other as a storage drive. This way you can keep your music, pictures, documents, videos on one drive (D:, E: whatever). Games and programs on the C: But I normally do it because I run a faster disk for my OS and slower, larger capacity disk for my storage drive. Specs in Sig. But back to your question, enable raid 0 in the BIOS, and then get your re-install on.

 

Sigh, that's a pain.. Damn reinstalls, at least I kept all those disks this time

 

If you have the Alien Respawn disc it may save you time, if not, have fun!

 

I really can't be bothered with another reinstall, there is no Alien Respawn disk with the product, just the windows disk, a resource cd, and the disk with all the free from dell that you don't really want..