Originally Posted by yellowbastrd
I partioned my 40gig harddrive to place the OS on the first 10gigs. This way if anything ever becomes corrupt, I can simply format C:\ and not lose anything on my remaining 30gig D:\ drive.
That's what I do too. Except I do it on my 80gig; first 10 gigs = xp pro; other 70gigs = programs/documents; then HDD2 (160gig) = 1 partition = downloads, storage, etc.