I have my C drive with windows and programs on it, in other words, what
ever's used is on the C drive, and my D drive has the installation files on
it, backups of the C drive, and really I'm setup so a crash only takes me
out for a limited time. Unfortunately I'm in that boat now and need sighted
help to see what I can do with the windows CD, but once I do that if I have
to format or not, I should be in pretty good shape. I just hope that's all
my problem is. I should find out tonight if I'm lucky, I'm on the laptop
now.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Howard Kaufman" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 2:39 PM
Subject: Re: OT Computer
> Robert, I have successfully used a two drive system. I would suggest
> doing
> it differently however. The reason is, that if you use a backup program
> to
> backup and restore copies of your drive, you want that drive to be as
> small
> as possible. I use norton ghost on floppy disks to backup and restore my
> program drive for example. Windows, and all my programs go on my C drive.
> it is much easier to change "my documents and all of it's children to the
> D
> drive. You can even move outlook express there. i don't use outlook, so
> can't tell you.
> As far as your IE question, I sure like ie6 better, with out those extra
> tabs, but I understand that security is better in Ie7. Your choice your
> risk. My C drive is 40 GB, and with every program installed on it, their
> is
> still 24.8 GB free. You do want to keep 25 per cent of any drive clear at
> all times. I also use an external synthesizer, and have vocal-eyes on my
> backup and restore disks, so I know when the process is done. kind of
> cool!
> I store 3 backups of my C drive on a portable hard drive, so I can repair
> problems rather than reformatting and re-installing drives.
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