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.