When I needed more space in my main PC, I went for the (then) cheaper option of 4x 250GB drives over one large one, and as I wanted to avoid problems with moving the disks I didn't use the motherboard's RAID features and instead went with Windows dynamic discs and a spanned volume.
Time moved on and I wanted some of the contents of that drive on my main PC and the rest on the media PC, but I had nowhere to store roughly 1TB of data whilst I re-arranged the disks. After much research on the net everyone told me that it wasn't possible to remove a single drive from a Windows spanned volume. That's never stopped me trying before and I am glad to say that I managed it! Instructions after the jump.
Time moved on and I wanted some of the contents of that drive on my main PC and the rest on the media PC, but I had nowhere to store roughly 1TB of data whilst I re-arranged the disks. After much research on the net everyone told me that it wasn't possible to remove a single drive from a Windows spanned volume. That's never stopped me trying before and I am glad to say that I managed it! Instructions after the jump.
