Oh, I forgot, The CPU is Intel 2.8GHZ, shows in tests and upon sign-on it
runs at 2.91 GHz.

"ritter197" <ritter197@verizon.net> wrote in message
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>I appreciate your feedback, first of all.
>
> I have 2 CD drives so I can copy from one to the other.
>
> Yes, the Video is a physically separate drive.
>
> And I can see, that a lot of info is being written to C:drive, which I had
> hoped to keep clean for strictly the OS WinXP Pro.
>
> "Noozer" <dont.spam@me.here> wrote in message
> news:k8qof.1603$2k.1135@pd7tw1no...
>>
>> "ritter197" <ritter197@verizon.net> wrote in message
>> news:v3oof.77909$7r6.65597@trnddc07...
>>> Why nightmare?
>>> C drive "should" only be the OS
>>> D is a CD read drive
>>> E is a CD/Read Write drive
>>> F is for Video
>>> G is External drive
>>> H is Applications
>>>
>>> Seems very orderly to me.
>>
>> It's not saving you anything, and creating a lot more "work" for you.
>>
>> With Windows, no matter where you put programs, C: still gets lots of
>> information written to it.
>>
>> Why do you need a D/E for CD Read/Write???? Unless the computer is a
>> 200Mhz PC, you should be able to burn from C: and run other applications.
>>
>> A video drive partition only makes sense if it's physically a separate
>> drive, otherwise the head has to jump back and forth between the two
>> partitions making it slower.
>>
>> Breaking drives up makes sense in an OS like Linux, or DOS... Doesn't
>> make much sense in Windows.
>>
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