addin a second hard drive

i'm trying to add a second hard drive to act as extended memory{c: master
60G-E:slave 80G} and am trying to partition 80G as extended partition of 60G
so they will act as one drive.
both are on ntfs
slave is bare and formatted
master runs registered xp home
i have spent all day trying to implement online and offline help and am
getting, seems to me, no-where.
how do i make these 2 act as 1?
have triedas requested:
click start
run [now in screen c:\windows\system32\command.com].... line says
c:\docume~1mike
i type in fdisk enter and have
fdisk is not rcognised as internal or external command,operable program or
batch file
all i want to do is add c:{60G} to e:{80G} as one and end with 140G
any help?
and thanks for your time

Not how it works.. the computer will see them as separate drives..

If your computer is not presently seeing the second drive, right click on
'My Computer' and select 'Manage'.. in the window that appears, select 'Disk
management' under the 'Storage' heading.. you can partition and format from
there..

Note that programs installed to the second drive will run seamlessly.. the
operating system will remember the 'paths' and will execute them as if the
programs were installed on the boot drive..

--
Mike Hall
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User



"boardsheetless" wrote in message
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i'm trying to add a second hard drive to act as extended memory{c: master
60G-E:slave 80G} and am trying to partition 80G as extended partition of
60G
so they will act as one drive.
both are on ntfs
slave is bare and formatted
master runs registered xp home
i have spent all day trying to implement online and offline help and am
getting, seems to me, no-where.
how do i make these 2 act as 1?
have triedas requested:
click start
run [now in screen c:\windows\system32\command.com].... line says
c:\docume~1mike
i type in fdisk enter and have
fdisk is not rcognised as internal or external command,operable program or
batch file
all i want to do is add c:{60G} to e:{80G} as one and end with 140G
any help?
and thanks for your time

What you want to create is called a 'Dynamic Disk' That capability is
available in XP Pro but not XP Home.
I would not recommend use of dynamic disk configurations for the average
home user situation. It is explained in the following article:
How To Use Disk Management to Configure Dynamic Disks in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308424/

Is there some particular reason you want this kind of configuration?
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"boardsheetless" wrote in message
...
i'm trying to add a second hard drive to act as extended memory{c: master
60G-E:slave 80G} and am trying to partition 80G as extended partition of
60G
so they will act as one drive.
both are on ntfs
slave is bare and formatted
master runs registered xp home
i have spent all day trying to implement online and offline help and am
getting, seems to me, no-where.
how do i make these 2 act as 1?
have triedas requested:
click start
run [now in screen c:\windows\system32\command.com].... line says
c:\docume~1mike
i type in fdisk enter and have
fdisk is not rcognised as internal or external command,operable program or
batch file
all i want to do is add c:{60G} to e:{80G} as one and end with 140G
any help?
and thanks for your time