I just purchased a new hard drive, after a scary episode with our computer(more on that in another nlog entry…). Now that I am blogging, I feel compelled to cite an extremely valuable source of information for this sort of thing: OS Set Up Guide 2005. There you will find some valuable advice on setting up and using partitions(and why), along with several other useful tidbits. Incidentally, I used this same guide in 2005, when I purchased the original drive, and followed the same advice then. Copying each partition from my old drive to my new one was a piece of cake, something I didn’t anticipate the first time I set up my original drive, but it paid off handsomely. Anyway, this is merely a plug for some well organized and valuable advice. Thanks, Media Man!