Um, if you're going to be doing a full backup of your hard drive _anyway_
(and prior to running any de-fragmenter, however highly recommended, it is
a good idea), you might strongly consider partitioning the 80 megger into
two or seven pieces. Then leave one partition empty or full of
don't-really-require files. The reason? If you have a glitch on one of
the other partitions, you can use Dave Haynie's DiskSalv to recover from
the harmed partition into the spare partition (they have to be the same
size).
Good idea; i think I would like to partition it in half. The only problem
is finding a nice logical way to divide the stuff up. Actually, I have an
old 300MB Maxtor drive that I haven't been using 'cause it acted funny
(doing drive access when it shouldn't have, like when the computer wasn't
on, etc.). If I can get it fixed, I'll just use that in place of a tape
backup unit until I can afford one 🙂
– Steve –