"Pegasus (MVP)" <I.can@fly.com> wrote in message news:un%237TkQyHHA.4712@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
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: "JethroUK©" <reply@the.board> wrote in message
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: >i just ordered a new machine which has x2 300 gig drives - i intend to use
: > one drive as system/software drive (C
and the other for data (D
: >
: > my question is that because the drives are so big (my current C: drive is
: > only 20 gig) should i partition them? i do realise that new software uses
: > a
: > lot more space 300 g seems very big just for a system - obviously it's not
: > so easy to change my mind later so i'm fishing for recommendations really
: >
: >
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: On each and every one of the systems I am responsible for,
: I place Windows and all applications on drive C: (20 GBytes)
: and all data on drive D:. Doing so makes it much easier to
: create, maintain and restore images. Here is an example:
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: One day I find that my Windows installation has gone South
: for unexplained reasons. I am unable to fix the problem
: within a reasonable period of time. I will now boot the
: machine with my Acronis Recovery CD and restore drive
: C: from the image I took a few weekes ago. Thirty minutes
: later I'm back in business. My data (including my EMail files)
: is still intact because it resides on drive D:.
And if you do that with 98, and also install all your
programs to the D: drive,
you can even image the entire C: drive (OS)
onto a single CD
I usually set people with 98 up this way.
Once, the next day after I de-virused and de-malwared
a 98 based computer for a guy,
he called up and said that the
computer stopped working, Turned out, the HD had
taken a dive. No problemo. I simply put a new HD in
and copied the C: drive back from an Image of
his system that I had burned to a CD. Voila, back
in action.
With XP, since the size is so large, I usually image of to
a spare HD, then yank it and put it on the shelf for a rainy
day, Now, if I can just find a DOS app with DVD
support
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