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Partitioning
I always partition the hard drive into a system and a data partition. I tried doing a triple partition -- OS, apps, and data -- but that turned out to be more trouble than it was worth. Having two partitions has saved my users from disaster several times, when the OS got hosed, but the data partition wasn't affected. I love being able to change tears to smiles when they find out they haven't lost everything.