You can easily do this with partitioning, and any important data should be backed up anyways.MKSheppard wrote:WRONG WRONG!EmperorMing wrote:Oh, for the hard drive I would recommend a single 80 gb drive. It should be cheaper than two 40 gb drives.
Always have two hard drives incase the OS goes splat on you - C drive
holds games and the OS, D drive holds your important stuff...so in case
of a O$ fuck up, or upgrade, you can easily transfer your stuff / save it.
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On his budget yes, one drive. On my budget, I have done just what you have recommended.MKSheppard wrote:WRONG WRONG!EmperorMing wrote:Oh, for the hard drive I would recommend a single 80 gb drive. It should be cheaper than two 40 gb drives.
Always have two hard drives incase the OS goes splat on you - C drive
holds games and the OS, D drive holds your important stuff...so in case
of a O$ fuck up, or upgrade, you can easily transfer your stuff / save it.
Edit: And with the 80 gig drive, get a burner for about 50 clams and he can back up all his stuff with no issue.
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I Googled the error message 'IRQL Not Less or Equal" and returned this link:
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp/t1022109789
I followed the advice of setting my Swapfile size to 0, rebooting, (wading through the "AAAGGHHHH OMFG MY SWAPFILE IS MISSING!!!!!11 PLEASE PRETTY PRETTY PLEASE PUT IT BACK!!!!!" system messages), resetting it to min 640MB max 640MB, and booting Quake...
NO MORE BLUE SCREEN OFDEATH!!!
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I Googled the error message 'IRQL Not Less or Equal" and returned this link:
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp/t1022109789
I followed the advice of setting my Swapfile size to 0, rebooting, (wading through the "AAAGGHHHH OMFG MY SWAPFILE IS MISSING!!!!!11 PLEASE PRETTY PRETTY PLEASE PUT IT BACK!!!!!" system messages), resetting it to min 640MB max 640MB, and booting Quake...
NO MORE BLUE SCREEN OFDEATH!!!
I R 31337 |-|4X0R!!!!11
I partitioned my new HDD into 5GB ReiserFS, 256MB Linux swap, and 2 17GB FAT32s,- though I will consider sharing that swap space with Windows. I'm leaving it as FAT32 until a reliable write driver for NTFS on linux can be developed. Is there a wayMKSheppard wrote:WRONG WRONG!EmperorMing wrote:Oh, for the hard drive I would recommend a single 80 gb drive. It should be cheaper than two 40 gb drives.
Always have two hard drives incase the OS goes splat on you - C drive
holds games and the OS, D drive holds your important stuff...so in case
of a O$ fuck up, or upgrade, you can easily transfer your stuff / save it.
An advantage of that is that you can also run software RAID. Not sure if the mobo provides enough bandwidth to fully take advantage of it though. Also not sure on how to set it up on the C: drive. However you then can't dual boot since you'll have to use dynamic discs or the Linux equivelant.
Is there any way to add space from a loopback file on another partition into an existing folder, or do you have to put the entire folder onto the partition? Or can you make debian packages install to /usr/local instead of /usr by default?
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If you use some sort of controller card that masks your HD RAID array as a single device, you can dual-boot that way. Hardware-accelerated RAID cards are the best options, of course.Pu-239 wrote:An advantage of that is that you can also run software RAID. Not sure if the mobo provides enough bandwidth to fully take advantage of it though. Also not sure on how to set it up on the C: drive. However you then can't dual boot since you'll have to use dynamic discs or the Linux equivelant.