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2 drives, Where to put OS, where to put apps???

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Viper69

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Feb 26, 2003
I have 1 hard drive right now. It's a SATA 1 (first generation SATA drive) 160Gigs 7200rpm...Would I benefit from putting in another drive that is an
IDE drive (PATA that is)...for the storage of files?

I don't believe my board supports 2 SATA drives. And I was wondering if I would be better off after I reformat, because I don't think I can fix my malware problem :bang head . I have tried and tried to fix it. If I should reformat, should I put the OS, XP Pro on 1 drive, along w/Office 2003, and on the other drive, put my music, games, videos and such on the 2nd drive...??

If I can only have 1 SATA drive on my board, which drive should be the master w/the OS, the smaller PATA? or the larger SATA, which has more space. I'd hate to see the SATA drive be used for something and have it basically empty.

What's your take? :confused:
 
what i would do is partition my sata drive.

partition off no more than about 80 gigs or less for the os and apps you load and use it as your 'beast of burden' drive and leave the rest for storage. that way you are taking advantage of the 'top' portion of the drive and will be faster than a lump 160gb in the long run. i did this with my setup i have about 20gb set aside for os and apps and the rest for whatever.

you could setup your pata drive and after you do a fresh install make an image of it on the pata drive so that way if you get overrun by malware again then you can easily restore your system.
 
As you can see from my sig, I use a 20GB drive for my OS, Apps, and other related stuff. I use a 200GB drive for all my data such as music and movies. This way, If I need to reinstall the OS for any reason, my data can stay untouched and the backup process is very little and very painless.

In the new system I plan to build this summer, the plan is to get the quickest SATA drive I can for my C: drive, and to transfer over my 200GB data drive to the new system.
 
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