How many drives/partitions do you have?

[Stone-D]

Here's mine, after years of tweaking :

A: Floppy (Duh). Rarely used, only there for absolute emergencies.
C: DOS, Win98se, WinXP, Win2k3, Program Files(1).
D: Games.
E: Data. Work, gfx, code, etc.
F: Media. Video, MP3s, soundz.
G: Archives. Interim backups of downloads, source files for windows installations.
H: CDROM.

D is a seperate 20 gig drive. The rest (C, E, F, G) is one 40 gig drive, part'd. D also hosts a copy of Gentoo linux. If you're wondering about how I got a seperate drive to be 'D' on win98se and DOS, search google for 'Letter Assigner'. Free, does wonders and absolutely safe. Been using it for over two years. Not a plug, lost contact with the author.

"Ah, you loser, yur gunna loze everything in a HD crash!!111"

No, won't. I've got some experience in data recovery and have restored my partition table(2) three times so far. Windows has crashed many maaaany times, but I'm safe from that(3).

(1) Yes, it's doable. No, I'm not lying.
(2) Norton Utilities. NDD.EXE. "NDD.EXE /REBUILD". Does wonders. Diskedit is excellent for a fallback. FYI, Norton is not 'safe' from Systemworks 2001 onwards.
(3) I winzip the windows directories and shove that in G. Yes, WINZIP. Right-click C:\WIN98SE (for example), 'Add to Win98SE.zip'. Rename to Win98SE!.zip. If your windows fubars, just extract to C:\WIN98SE! and reboot to DOS. Now, DELTREE WIN98SE and rename WIN98SE! to WIN98SE. Done. My 'safe' backup sizes at a 63 meg zip file. Oh, not fun with NT OSes, which is why I don't truck with them much.

Erk. On modem. Me go. Yes, that's why the wierd lingo. Cya.