>Well first of all drives now are dirt cheap.  You can get a 40GB for about
>$114CDN or a 20GB for under $100CDN.  As well if one fails on you at least
>you have the other whereas if your partitioned drive screws up well then
>you're screwed.  Also partitioning her current drive means she'll have to
>backup all her files since she's going to have to re-format it.  Unless
>there's a way to partition without having to re-format.  Is there?

There are utilities out there. I don't know their names, though, 
because I don't parition for any reason.

>I had partitioned my first hard drive in order to use X but something
>happened down the road and I lost my files in both partitions.  Also I had
>installed VPC 4 and was trying to run windows off a partition.  However, for
>some strange reason, Windows hated the extended format and would only work
>in Standard.  Partitioning the drive and formatting one in standard and the
>other in extended only confused windows more.

That's why I don't parition.

>Lastly, you have 3 bays why not use them =).

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