I'm not sure what you mean that Goback has a problem with big drives. I am running it on a 30 gig Win 98 SE system and on a 40 gig Win Me system without any problems. Admittedly Goback slows down the system minutely, but I never really noticed the difference. If you do a standard install on a big drive (10% of the available freespace), you'll have a very large Goback file, but I manually chose the size of the file on all my installs to save space. Your setup is a good one, but I don't think you need to have two drives for Goback to work OK. What if a file or files on your D drive go South? You'll have to reinstall rather than revert.
>Just set up an arrangement of my W98SE system which seems to be working very
>well so I thought I'd share it with you folks.
>
>I've been using GoBack for a while now, and I think it's a great program.
>However, I found that GoBack has a couple of annoying limitations. First, it
>doesn't seem to operate too well on big drives that contain a lot of files.
>Second, the current version (3.1 DeLuxe) won't let you run the program on
>only the OS partition of the drive.
>
>So what I did was this:
>
>I bought a new 20Gb 7200 rpm hard drive and installed W98SE onto it. But
>only the OS and nothing else.
>
>I reformatted my existing 40Gb 7200 rpm drive, and set it up as my 'D'
>drive.
>
>Then I set up GoBack to run only on the OS drive,C.
>
>Lastly, I finished off by installing all my multitudinous apps, games, docs
>pics and MP3's onto D drive, which isn't policed by GoBack.
>
>The result is excellent, and for me, well worth the cost of an extra drive.
>I've never had W98SE perform so quickly and efficiently.
>
>Admittedly, I'm using an Athlon 1800+ cpu and 512Mb of DDR ram, but I was
>using these same processors prior to this new drive setup, and I reckon I'm
>getting 30-50% better performance now. Plus GoBack now only has a few gigs
>to look after, so does it's indexing work far faster.
>
>Obviously, a 2Gb drive would have been ample to house Windows, and if I'd
>been able to get such a thing in a 7200 rpm model I would have, but 20Gb now
>seems to be the smallest available.
>
>
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