Re: How's the fault tolerance when mounting a drive as a folder? by Wayne
Wayne
Sun Jun 18 23:27:42 CDT 2006
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"Dandelion" <dandelion@greenfield.com> wrote in message
news:4495d4c1$0$2027$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com...
>A new drive can be mounted as a folder on another drive in XP or
> 2003.
Correct
>If one of the drive becomes bad, would the data on the
> other drive be lost too?
>
No. Creating a mount point does *not* "span" or "stripe" a drive, it simply
allows a drive to appear as a folder in Explorer.
> In other words, do XP and 2003 make sure not splitting and
> putting a big file in two drives?
Lost me here, sorry. If you place a file into the folder (the mount point
created above) then it resides on that drive only. Yes, you can see it by
going to c:\{mounted drive name} but it physically exists on the second hard
drive.
Wayne McGlinn
Brisbane, Oz
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