I have built several including a few with 3 drives in raid 5. they do exist, just not common unless you get into some of the more desktop replacement systems. most mainstream Tier 1/2 vendors just use one to save space/cost/complexity On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Eric Shubert wrote: > Lisa Kachold wrote: >> >> Gee, >> >> Anyone know an easy tool or procedure to make a standard Laptop C and D >> drive no longer mirrored instead 2 usable drives? >> >> I heard a rumor that you can boot into say Knoppix and use gpartd? >> >> -- >> Office: (480)307-8707 >> AT&T: (503)754-4452 >> > > That doesn't sound right. Are you sure that the drive D is a mirror, and not > a recovery partition? Mirroring to a separate partition on the same drive > would seem to me to be pointless, and I've never heard of a Laptop with 2 > HDDs. > > -- > -Eric 'shubes' > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss