I did the exact same thing as you. I also had to go through the steep learning curve. I used the
"radified" instructions that the previous poster also reccomends. I am happy.
My 2cents. I LOVE using fdisk. It made me feel cool to use it, plus teh radified site goes through really good instructions on how to use fdisk to make an extended drive with multiple logical drives.
If you make an fdisk, be sure to use the first Windows ME boot disk on
this site .
The ME boot disc does a good job of partitioning larger drives.
When you format it, choose "extended drive." If you want to further partition that, you can add logical drives.
My computer at home has the primary hardrive partitioned into 2 drives. 15g for programs, and 65g for backup. I keep work assignments, a book I am writing, pictures, drives, old school work, and a ghost image on that drive.
My second hard drive is 200g. I have that partitioned into 2 logical drives. 20g for games and 180 for media storage.
I did it this way so I could reformat my OS without loosing data if it gets corrupted--I did get a nasty virus once and am glad my OS had it's own partition.
When my back-up got too big for my music and video editing, I got the 200g hard drive. I decided to have a seperate partition for games since I game a lot and tend to install and unistall games quite frequently--I get bored of games and get new ones frequently. (Civ3 is the only game that has lasted more then 3 months--I will never get rid of it! All that installing and uninstalling will not defreg my entire hard drive since they are in their own partition.
Since media files tend to be larger then other files, I use the 180 to hold everything else.
I love how it is set up and wish you the best of luck.