Hard Drive Partitioning – Free

If you’ve recently bought a new Windows 7 computer, you’ve probably got a 300+ GB drive with your operating system, programs and all the pictures, text and video you transferred over to the new computer. What I like to do is to divide the  hard drive into two partitions – one for the operating system and one for the data (pictures, video, graphics test)

The advantage to this system is that you can frequently and easily backup your C: Operating System to an external drive so that if your computer ever gets a virus/malware/ it’s easy to restore that partition without affecting your data. I also backup before I install a new program so that if I have a problem or the program doesn’t uninstall properly I can easily restore my latest backup.

While I’ve used Partition Magic in the past, there’s a new free program which has some great reviews.
Partition Wizard Free Home Edition

Here’s a good review of the program.

$69 – 1 TB drives

If you’re looking to add a hard drive to your computer or upgrade your 160 GB drive to a 1000 GB drive, now’s the time to do it.

Dell has a great deal on a 1 TB drive for only $69 and it includes free shipping. I’ve heard a lot of good news about these drives, especially if they are used for data. They are a little bit slower than the Black Caviar drives.

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Here’s the link(click here)