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I’ve revised my partitioning strategy yet again and I’ve gone back to the original lay-out.  The reason for the change is that I have some 3D software which utilizes an internal referencing system that will be severely screwed up if I change drive letters around.

Since these apps have very extensive and space consuming library assets and operate best when those assets are installed in the same directories as their respective applications, these particular apps really need to go on their own drive and have as much drive space available to them.

So the lay-out is now like this:  C and D go on the same drive.  C is a small 40GB partition where Windows lives and D is for applications.  E drive takes up an entire drive, no partitions.  The same goes for the terabyte drive.

The odd man out is the legacy 80GB IDE drive I still have.  It’s now the Z drive and it’s only purpose is to store the drive images of the Windows partition, as well as other back-up files.

While this new set-up doesn’t really reduce the amount of logical drives,  the new lay-out gives each logical drive a whole lot more space and, more importantly, solves the one significant problem I had: finding things.

My library of images, media files (music, movies/TV shows) and 3D asset files (props and textures etc) were scattered over 6 logical drives— 7 if you count the external drive!  With this new lay-out, the terabyte drive becomes the central library drive and should make finding and keeping things organized a whole lot easier.

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