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My incomplete opinion: 40 GB is good for drive C - also install windows on this drive too - no reason to get complicated by putting it on drive D - its better to have the games or pograms on drive D see above Storage is ok, but backup ? On the same drive - backup from what ? - if your hdd will physically fail it won't help you if you saved anything on a different partition (like it happen to me a while ago), also messing w/ linux could get your FAT table corrupted and you migt again loose your data regardless of the partition you have it on. Not recommended since ftp and especially BT require a lot of hdd activity and that is a 5400 rpm drive. What I would do: the 160 GB drive: Drive C-40GB :Windows, drivers, program files some software. Drive D-60GB: Programs that don't fit on C (we don't want to get C overloaded), program installation kits, games, downloaded files from E: drive Drive E-60GB: Games, Storage, download FTP, BT whatever the 20 GB drive: One partition (maybe even w/ windows installed just in case - though you should consider Knoppix as an emergency situation): backup, storage (if the other hdd tops), mobile drive (with hdd racks or without ) 1. Why install Windows on 2 drives ? One is enough - besides you would need a custom bootloader or to manually change the hdd jumpers if you want to choose what drive to boot. 2. I wasn't a big fan of Win XP at first (of course it was in beta stages then) - but it didn't take to long to get to like it. With the right adjustemts and tweaking you can get XP to run pretty well - you may run into some incompatible 16bit programs but most of these are old games. Compared to other Windows versions XP is stable (you won't get to see many bluescreens) and really fast - boots faster then Win2k on the same system .... Good luck

There was a guide to squeeze all 5 CD's of office 2003 in only 1 CD. Anyone has a link for that ?