Making a virtuel drive of all drives? (1 Viewer)

[BarateaU]

Maybe totaly wrong place, but hey im new

I have used media portal for like 1,5 year or so.

In the beginning i uused it only for watching movies on hdd.
Then got a new matchine and got a tv-card so i could watch tv true it.
And then stared to wath HD movies and so it went.

It work fine for me, but i wonder if there is any solution to my question.

I have 1x250 2x500 drives to my htpc and i wonder if there is a good way to make i virtual drive of them all " i dont want to raid them in any way cuz the 2x500 is USB ".
Virtual so i dont have zippzapp between the hdd to find the movie im looking for.

Virtual in that way so it looks like one place when serching true the libary in mediaportal, dont have to be one drive in "my computer" or any like that.

Win has a nice software raid but i dont want to use that cuz if i unplug one drive the hole system would break.

Any one got any sugestions?

Sorry for all the spellingprobs

MediaPortal Version: 2
MediaPortal Skin: defualt
Windows Version: XP sp2
CPU Type: P4 3200mhz
HDD: 1x80, 1x250, 2x500
Memory: 1gb
Motherboard: HP?
Motherboard Chipset:
Motherboard Bios:
Video Card: GF6200 TC
Video Card Driver:
Sound Card: USB to Optical
Sound Card AC3:
Sound Card Driver:
1. TV Card: Haupagen
1. TV Card Type:
1. TV Card Driver:
2. TV Card:
2. TV Card Type:
2. TV Card Driver:
3. TV Card:
3. TV Card Type:
3. TV Card Driver:
4. TV Card:
4. TV Card Type:
4. TV Card Driver:
MPEG2 Video Codec:
MPEG2 Audio Codec:
Satelite/CableTV Provider:
HTPC Case: HP
Cooling: delta fans
Power Supply:
Remote: Microsoft and Logitech Harmony
TV: Philips 30"
TV - HTPC Connection: DVI

 

[Peter2]

Try with the 'subst' command in a command shell; you can find the possible options by typing 'subst /?'

 

[Efros]

Not so sure that its such a good idea, if you combine all of the drives as one virtual drive what happens when one of em dies. It just happened to my boot drive on my MP system, it was making some quite alarming clicking noises, I immediately backed up using Seagates wonderful Discwizard, just as well I did as the original boot drive is now deader than a very dead thing.

 

[BarateaU]

Nah thats the point why i dont want to have raid.
If one drive fails or get disconnected i dont wat the sys to break.

If one drive is gone, the virtual folders shuld be gone also

But okey an exampel if i make a folder that has shortcuts to every folder/file on every disk its culd be a "virtual" place that points to every disk and so on but its still in one place.

And if one disk fails, the only thing that goes to shit is the shortcuts. "and the disk ofcourse"

 

[gxtracker]

What Peter suggested will work. It's very much like symbolic links in unix. you'll be able to make a folder that points to your other USB hard drive. when that drive is not connected, the link will remain, but it just wont lead anywhere.

 

[ctgoodman]

Hmm.. I don't think you will have much option with the System drive nor the USB drives. A friend of mine has four internal drives, one 120gb, two 250gb drives and a 60gb boot drive. What he has done is to create a folder on that C: drive he calls "storage" in that folder he created three folders which he called "Photos", "Music", and "Video". Then in Disk management he assigns the The smallest drive to the "Photos" folder and on of the 250's to "Video" and the other 250 to "Music" This way he has a single folder that media portal sees and it allows him to have all three drives in a single path. None of the three largest drives have a drive letter.

I don't think you can assign a path to a volume on a USB drive. Any option of removing those form the USB enclosre and mounting them internally?

I don't think subst will work for you either. You already have drive letters and subst will make another drive letter and I think that's what you are trying to avoid.