mike2020learnin

hello TSF Team ,

i have a few questions about my sons pc & harddrives

i had to go out of town for awhile and while i was gone my son added a secound hardrive to his pc !!

#1 he wanted to partition both of the drives like this
the 80 gig (master) Hitachi
partition #1 operating system
partition #2 programs
partition #3 created files & school work
the 40 gig ( slave )Maxtor fireball
partition #4 music / pics / videos
partition #5 saved games / back ups
partition #6 page file / virtual memory

he installed the drive correctly thru the drive manager but he is just useing the send to ( new vol (d) ) so i see this as just useing the 40gig as backing up the 80gig with this techn. ? , for i have set up drives this way to be able to store system backups for my clients

wehave tried to use partition magic & gparted but can not get either if the disk to load at start up for some reason , i have created / burned the disks several times (extra copies of each now ) but they won't load

his pc is the same as mine but compleatly stock with an upgrade to the psu

any advice on this would be greatful or a link to be able to do this

thanks guys & gals

Mike