Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 19:28:18 -0600 From: John Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: "Click Of Death" - Suggestions For Setting Up My New Drive
Looks like I will need a new hard drive, as my 20GB Fujitsu is making what I believe is the "click of death" sound. It is a distinctly audible "clank" and started about a week ago. It used to sound infrequently, but now comes as often as every several seconds when the disk is working hard. I've sidelined the L100 until my new 30GB Fujitsu arrives.
I am skeptical the old drive will last long enough for me to clone it to the new drive, but now that all of you have showed me how to install WinXP on the old drive, I am confident that I can re-install Windows on the new drive. Hubris? We'll see.
My question is what I should do differently and better when I set up the new drive.
First, should I go to Windows 2000? I hear it is as stable as WinXP while using fewer resources. However, I don't know how much fewer; I was already running WinXP with all but a handful of services disabled. I worry that Microsoft might not be patching Win2K very diligently, and that I will have more driver/compatibility problems with peripherals/software. I also worry that Win2K won't see the Libretto's hardware, or won't see the larger hard drive; WinXP didn't need a single Toshiba driver, hibernated perfectly, and saw the whole 20GB drive without drive overlay software. Finally, as you know I am far from being a PC guru, and I sometimes find the wizards etc built into WinXP to be handy. Do you guys have any suggestions?
Second, should I partition the drive differently? Last time, I set up c: in the first 8MB (I don't recall exactly how big, but did write it down somewhere), then left an unpartitioned space for the hibernation files, then d: with the remaining 11MB or so. This time, I was thinking about also setting up a small (200MB) e: partition just for the Windows swap file. Good, bad, or pointless idea?
Any other things I should do?
