Are you also one of those that got 1 or 2 big 250+gb hard drives and cant seem to figure out where to place your files and what to do with them? well I just read a danish article about how to split up a single hard drive without actually changing its partitions.
Its quite simple actually, lets say you got the following folder structure on your big harddrive.
c:\documents
c:\games
c:\pictures
c:\movies
c:\programs
this looks kinda like a good structure, but we can do better by typing this command:
Subst w: c:\documents
in your command prompt (”start” -> “run” -> type “cmd” -> press enter).
now you have a “virtual” hard drive (w:\) which is mapped to c:\documents this means that every time you put some data in w:\ it actually ends up in c:\documents.
notice that this is not a real partition and is not a new hard drive in your computer just a folder mapped to look like it.
If you regret creating the virtual hard drive you can delete it by typing this in your command prompt:
Subst w: /d
notice this does not delete your data it simply removes the virtual mapping to the folder, so you can still find your documents in c:\documents.
note: I was unable to change the name of the virtual drive after creating the mapping, but it kept the old name of the original drive, even when i changed the name of the original drive. So changing the name before you create the virtual drive will allow you to give the drive a name in windows.
Update: When rebooting or returning from a hibernation the names of the virtual drive will reset to the current name of the original drive.
Or one could start using a real OS (UNIX like) and do the reverse.. ehmm… that would require that you wanted that of course — if you use GNOME you could just add all the folders you want to the favourite folders which would have the same effect, only easier and less cumbersome — symlinks work beautifully as well.
Yeah, I know that it is easier on nix, but nix can’t run many of the programs that I use :/ I have been dual-booting for some time, but i decided to remove nix again as I didn’t really used it for anything else than a little websurfing
perhaps one day when XP dont work anymore I will do the switch… but untill then I’m gonna use it and keep my usual rutines 
Wine for the win — it really does run most things these days. Give it a spin. Most games run acceptable in Cedega if they don’t run in Wine (sometimes much better than any windows version — sometime much worse).
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