Well my adventures with defragging seems to have paid off. From a disturbing 60% fragmented, my "D:" drive is down to an unhealthy but vastly improved 43%. The report advised me to defrag again. Can't argue with that.

My computer's organised like this:

Two 60Gb drives, the C drive holding my system, program files, the annoying "Documents and Settings", my 20Gig music directory (4 Gigs of which is Christmas Music!) and my rather large Movies directory.

The D drive holds stuff I've downloaded and disk images to use with Daemon Tools' Virtual CD-Rom.

Before I started backing things up onto my last ten blank CD's, I had 6 gig left on the C drive and 8.5 gig free on the D drive, and that was after deleting upwards of six gigs between the two drives in order to gain the 15% free space the defrag app needs to work in the first place.

so now I have no blank CD's, a little less space in my BIG cd pouch and a search set up on Ebay for DVD-r drives and disks.

Bearing all this in mind, it's no wonder I'm dreaming of multi-terabyte RAID arrays.

My next PC will be a Network Fileserver.