New Question Concerning adding a HD

[Magusigne]

Hey guys!

I basically built a nice rig, but now the wife wants to use the evil "SoulSeek" among other things.

This is what I want to try to accomplish. I don't want any of the soulseek crap fraggin up my hard drive as soulseek is the devil. I'm going to tack another Hard drive for soulseek to prevent damage to my main drive.

What do you guys recommend doing/how? I want to make sure all the downloaded music goes to that drive, as well as prevent any virus/spyware she may inadvertently download to stay on that drive as well.

What is my best bet? Putting windows on the new HD as well and letting her boot up from that drive? or am I being paranoid and just use the new HD as the dump for all the downloads?

I'm pretty sure I can install soulseek on that other HD and keep everything compartmentalized right?

Thanks!

 

[myocardia]

Originally posted by: Powernick50
I want to make sure all the downloaded music goes to that drive, as well as prevent any virus/spyware she may inadvertently download to stay on that drive as well.

That's not at all possible. Any virus she downloads will install itself to your C: drive. It makes absolutely no difference where downloads are stored, or where the P2P software is installed.

What is my best bet?

Buying the CD's she wants, instead of trying to steal them.

 

[jesterb84]

Well if you go the route of installing 2 hard drives (one Windows installation per drive), you might as well make the drives removable. Buy one of those removable HD bays that fit in a 5.25" slot so when you wife uses the PC, she puts her drive into the slot (with her Windows installation) and you do the same with your drive when it's your turn to use. That's sort of what I used to do when our family shared a computer. I had my own removable HD with my own Windows installation and plug it in when I use the PC. When I am done, I remove the drive and the next user plugs in their drive.