Cleaning Out Your Data in XP - Organizing Your Data
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If you think cleaning out your system is a hassle, I don't blame you. But there is a way to make it easier. I'm talking about organization. And if you don't believe me, I have a needle that I lost in a haystack a while back that I need back. Can you help me out? But seriously, you will suffer if you fail to organize your data. Your hard drive will indeed become the proverbial haystack. But don't worry, I think you'll find that data organization will get your creative juices flowing. And I promise that will be my last cliché.
Organizing your data is a task that largely falls upon you. By the time you're done, your system will reflect your personality in much in the same way that your home does. I will be merely offering some tips to guide you through this process. After all, you have to learn grammar before you can start writing.
My first tip involves hard drives and how to allocate your data on them. This assumes that you have multiple hard drives. The benefit of this is that you can designate data to one drive (usually D:) and programs to another (usually C:). With all your data on one drive, you don't have to go filtering through all your programs for the data you want to back up.
If you don't have multiple hard drives, you can always install another one physically. But that costs money! Okay, you can also partition the single hard drive you have so that Windows sees it as more than one hard drive. This can be done through third party software, like Partition Magic. They will guide you through this process better than I can. But this costs money too! Waaah! All right, fine. I see the cheapness is strong in you, Luke.
Come with me to the next section and I'll show you how to organize your one measly hard drive into a well-oiled machine. Uh oh, a cliché. I hope no one noticed it.
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