Partitioning my IBM HD's

[Eruditass]

So my IBM HD's have been acting up lately and I'm scared...

I plan to reformat those drives again after I backup everything, but I still can't decide on how to partition them.

Since right now it takes forever to boot up, I was thinking a small partition for JUST Windows 2000 on one HD, and a slightly larger partition for most/normal/small windows applications on the other hard drive. Therefore when it boots up it accesses both hard drives at the same time, also decreasing the stress on each HD, hopefully prolonging their life. I don't mind reformatting both partitions when I need to, and I don't generally take either HD out.

I would use the rest of the HD space on each drive for archivable stuff like downloads, music, games, movies. I was thinking 2.5 GB for the windows partition and 5 GB for most applications.

opinions?

 

[Supchaka]

I dont bother. Put it all into one baby! Its a hassle constantly having to change your path for installs, although I know theres a spot to change that in the reg.

 

[Eruditass]

do you happen to know where in the reg that spot is? google just puts up the default path for looking for Windows install files or for Windows 98-, whereas i have windows 2000.

EDIT: nevermind i found it by searching for "C:\Program Files" whole string only in regedit.

 

[ImaRootofALLEVIL]

Originally posted by DoomzDayz
So my IBM HD's have been acting up lately and I'm scared...

you should be

use the ibm drive tool to fix the drive and start shopping for non ibm replacements

ibm hard drives and archiving do not belong together, ever