Following the advice of you good people I have decided to partition my 160gb drive into three, 20gb for Windows, 70gb for other programmes and data, 70gb undecided but possibly downloads etc. I have got another 160gb drive that I will use as a back up for everything or possibly set up a raid.
My question is how best to manage my folders and keep backing up easy. I can see that I can relocate the My Documents folder for each user onto the second partition (right click the folder and properties) but it has been my practice to keep my master itunes library which has all users music on it and all our photographs in the shared documents folder which any user can access and for example add songs to their own itunes library. It doesn't appear that I can move this folder onto the second partition in the same way as the My Documents folder. Also the Shared Documents folder is the one that is visible from my other pc (netwoked via the router) and I use it to swop files between the pc's. What is the best way of setting my folders up seperate from the c: partition so that when I reinstall XP I don't overwrite all my documents?
I was going to put my utility programmes such as AVG Antivirus and Zonealarm on the C: partition. Is this the best way to do it?
I am probably going to set up a Page File at the start of the other 160gb drive which appears to be the concensus of people here.
My question is how best to manage my folders and keep backing up easy. I can see that I can relocate the My Documents folder for each user onto the second partition (right click the folder and properties) but it has been my practice to keep my master itunes library which has all users music on it and all our photographs in the shared documents folder which any user can access and for example add songs to their own itunes library. It doesn't appear that I can move this folder onto the second partition in the same way as the My Documents folder. Also the Shared Documents folder is the one that is visible from my other pc (netwoked via the router) and I use it to swop files between the pc's. What is the best way of setting my folders up seperate from the c: partition so that when I reinstall XP I don't overwrite all my documents?
I was going to put my utility programmes such as AVG Antivirus and Zonealarm on the C: partition. Is this the best way to do it?
I am probably going to set up a Page File at the start of the other 160gb drive which appears to be the concensus of people here.