My suggestion would be to keep the smaller drive as a boot drive and use the
larger for installs and data. It's no problem with most installs to change
the install path from C:\Program Files to D:\Program Files. Even if the new
120-gig drive is 7200 rpm and the 40-gig one is 5400 the difference would
not be noticeable. The smaller drive will allow faster access for your
Windows OS, and give you faster performance. Just don't clog up the C drive
with lots of installed programs (use the D drive).

William Pike
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-----Original Message-----
From: PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List
[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of John Freibergs
Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 8:20 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] New HDD

Hi, everyone,

I'm returning my recalled Fujitsu HDD and since I had to open up the box I
replaced it with a 120Gb Western drive only because that was what Best Buy
had on sale this week and the cost was a wash for what I'm getting for the
old drive.  Right now I have a 40 Gb Western drive that's a year old as the
Master with Win98se on it and I installed the new drive as the slave.  Both
drives are  each set up as one large partition.  At this point I have no
particular use I want to make of the new drive but I'm wondering if there's
anything to be gained by switching my files over to it and making that the
boot drive.  And is there anything to be gained by setting up either or both
drives with multiple partitions?  I'm running a celeron 950mhz processor
with 512 Mb of ram and Win98se.  I'm sure there are multiple opinions out
there, but I'm just looking to learn here.

Thanks

John

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