CHAPTER 24 Dealing with Disk Drives

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Schedule Automatic Defrags in XP

• Divide Your Hard Drive into Two Partitions

• Determine a Remote Computer’s Disk Drive Free Space

• Create an Instant Restore Point

• Move the Paging File to a Faster Hard Drive

Despite the timely demise of the floppy disk drive, these days we deal with disk drives more than ever. We still have internal hard drives to work with, of course, but with USB, IEEE 1394, and even eSATA (external SATA) ports commonplace on newer systems, external hard drives are all the rage. All systems have at least one optical (CD, DVD, or Blu-ray) drive, USB Flash drives are ubiquitous, and if your system has a memory card reader you probably have a half dozen or more extra ...

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