claynation
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Ok, first off, I have owned only one name brand computer, and it was a 75mHz packard bell purchased at sears in 1995 for 2500$. Since then, I have purchased individual components, and put it all together.
Largely, the only problems I always have is with the Hard Drive and using windows. I cannot get over how well windows runs on a fresh format for the first 2 days. Almost as if windows needs a secondary os built in to accomodate new programs like internet explorer, or games so that "It" could be the one you wipe out instead of the main OS. But after reformatting a 40 gig hard drive 20 times just to reinstall the OS gets old, so I started partitioning.
My first mistake was not researching what I wanted out of each partition enough so that I had to repartition over and over, which in my opinion is why I have so many bad blocks/sectors in turn causing random reboots.
Also, I am by no means financially independant, so I cannot just go to the store and buy another hard drive. My question now would be:
Once I buy another hard drive, if I partition it, should I limit the new partitions to any set capacity? And should I have no more then 4 logical drives in the extended? And is their any software that would help me with the hard drive I have now?
Largely, the only problems I always have is with the Hard Drive and using windows. I cannot get over how well windows runs on a fresh format for the first 2 days. Almost as if windows needs a secondary os built in to accomodate new programs like internet explorer, or games so that "It" could be the one you wipe out instead of the main OS. But after reformatting a 40 gig hard drive 20 times just to reinstall the OS gets old, so I started partitioning.
My first mistake was not researching what I wanted out of each partition enough so that I had to repartition over and over, which in my opinion is why I have so many bad blocks/sectors in turn causing random reboots.
Also, I am by no means financially independant, so I cannot just go to the store and buy another hard drive. My question now would be:
Once I buy another hard drive, if I partition it, should I limit the new partitions to any set capacity? And should I have no more then 4 logical drives in the extended? And is their any software that would help me with the hard drive I have now?