My situation is pretty similar to Saw the light's. We have two lappies and a desk top currently in use with the minimum of backing up (on disk) going on!
One lappy has a 20 GB HD, the other approx a 35GB one partitioned in two. The desktop has 80GB but with less than 20 being used.
My bright idea was to buy 2.5" 100GB external drive, "partition" it in four and then just do a complete back up of everything (in case one of the drives dies), with occasional backups afterwards as required.
Went ahead and got the drive and have now spent half a day googling how to partition an HD and at this stage I'm not even sure if what I propose is possible. The "primary, extended or logical" choices have me scratching my head. Oh and I can see in "disk management" on the desktop, it appears to have a seperate (primary?) 55MB FAT (for the OS?) outside the 74.5GB NTFS on the C: drive!?
I have been well and truly reminded that I have never got past the first step on the ladder of computer knowledge!
Could anybody tell me if my original proposal is possible? Advisable? Or do I just need to stop being a tightwad and get seperate backup drives?