Ok, I spent most of Friday evening and yesterday archiving a bunch of old files to spare hard drives with my usb-ide cable. A 20gig drive has all the old files that I know I haven’t touched in forever. Old versions of websites, old documents, etc. Also dumped all my “my programs” stuff where I keep copies of programs I download to try. That pretty much filled that up and then it was all deleted from my D drive.

Moved all my photos to a 15gig drive - I may put them back on the hard drive once the switch is over, we’ll see. Copied all my MP3s to a 10gig - I’ll figure a way to back up my music to this drive every once in awhile from now on.

Defragged the D drive, it’s a 120gig that’s about 1/3 full at the moment. My external 120, Z drive will get formatted and ready for new backups once I’ve settled in.

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I am closer and closer to moving to Ubuntu at home. I have a spare computer running it, and have installed a few test apps like Gourmet. I’m just hesitant to put too much time in to it just yet, because if I make the switch with my main computer, I’ll have to redo a bunch of stuff.

So, I’m thinking of taking the “easy” way out.

Right now my computer has two drives in it - I think my C drive is like 40gig, that’s where WinXP and my programs reside. D drive is a 120gig I believe, and is where my data resides.

So… I have other hard drives laying around, I think I have a spare 10 or 20gig. I’ll take the 40 out, put in the 20 and install Ubuntu on that. If I screw something up, in theory, I can just put the other hard drive back in.

In theory.