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I'm stalling. I have to go in to work today. I really should be there by now. That way I wouldn't have to be there until god-knows-when. I need to get at least 6 hours or so in. If I was there now, I'd still be working until nearly 3. And that's if I didn't break for lunch.

I have a new hobby. Researching my genealogy. For someone who likes history, and likes solving puzzles even more I'm quite surprised I didn't latch on to this any sooner.

I think I'll stop by a store on my way home tonight and see what kind of genealogy software is out there.

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I think I need serious professional help.

I just went to Circuit City. I bought myself a new 40GB hard drive, The Sims: Double Deluxe, The Sims: Hot Date Expansion Pack, and a new optical mouse.

My poor old POS computer isn't going to know what to do with 40GB. It currently has a pathetic 9GB. But with 40 I won't need to burn off downloaded audio & video to CD-R's every week. I'll be able to keep it on my hard drive for a fabulously long time! And no, I didn't buy the $80 hard drive just so I'd have enough room to install The Sims on my computer. Why would I do a thing like that? I couldn't possibly want to play the Sims while watching a DVD, or a VHS tape, or something on tv, or reading LJ, fanfic, or checking my email. Pshaw! I'd never, ever want to such a hyperactive overly-multitasking thing like that.

So, anyone have some good advice for me on how to lay out this new hard drive of mine once I pry open the case and install it? The guy at the store said I'd probably want to put my operating system on the 9GB drive, and save all my stuff to the other one. Can I move all my programs to the big drive without screwing anything up? And do I need to reinstall everything, or can I just do a drag & drop type operation in Windows Explorer?

I think it's time for me to go do some research.

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Well, the good news is I think I was able to find the installation disk or the downloaded setup file for all the software I want to make sure I keep. Except for one. Somehow, I've managed to lose the cd-rom that came with my scanner. And that particular cd has the scanner drivers, and the two photo editing programs I have (ArcSoft PhotoBase & PhotoStudio 2000 - I've actually never used the PhotoBase program, just the other one).

So, I'll have to make sure those programs get transferred over to the new hard drive properly.

I also learned that it's in my best interest to partition this new 40GB hard drive of mine into seperate portions. Though, I'm going to keep most of the applications and programs on the older, smaller hard drive some of the programs will have to go on the larger one. The Sims game I just bought, for one.

So, I'm thinking I'm going to split this new hard drive up into one 10GB for additional applications, another 25GB for data file storage (otherwise known as my sparkly music & video library), and then a little 1GB file for something I just learned about called a "swap file".

This morning, before I deleted & burned off various mgegs, & a couple large audio files, I had a whopping 400mb of free space left. That's not even enough room available for me to burn a freakin' CD!

So, I'm going to move over all my data files to this new larger hard drive, copy over thoe programs I don't have the installation disc for using the software that came with the new hard drive, then completely reformat & erase the old hard drive. Once that's done, I'm going to reinstall Windows and all the programs that are going to live on that smaller drive.