A new drive can be mounted as a folder on another drive in XP or
2003. If one of the drive becomes bad, would the data on the
other drive be lost too?

In other words, do XP and 2003 make sure not splitting and
putting a big file in two drives?

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
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>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
MCNGP Silver