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Good recommendations. &nbsp;I am going to put them in place right now and will post back if I have questions or run into issues. Thanks again. 
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Good recommendations.  I am going to put them in place right now and will post back if I have questions or run into issues. Thanks again.

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New desktop is a DELL 5100 with an 80gb drive and 512 MB of memory with a 3.2 ghz processor. I plan to install a 250 gb drive as a second disk for backup and recovery. &nbsp;I ordered the Dell system system to replace a desktop which recently had a disk crash. &nbsp; I have over 3000 digital images stored on the desktop and came very close to losing all of them plus numerous important documents. &nbsp;<br />
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I am going to install a second drive in the new desktop. &nbsp;I would very much appreciate some guidance in how to set up specific partitions on each of the drives (mirrors perhaps) so that if I have any type of hardware of software failure, I would have an excellent chance of recovering in a short period of time. &nbsp;Your help is appreciated. &nbsp;
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New desktop is a DELL 5100 with an 80gb drive and 512 MB of memory with a 3.2 ghz processor. I plan to install a 250 gb drive as a second disk for backup and recovery.  I ordered the Dell system system to replace a desktop which recently had a disk crash.   I have over 3000 digital images stored on the desktop and came very close to losing all of them plus numerous important documents.  

I am going to install a second drive in the new desktop.  I would very much appreciate some guidance in how to set up specific partitions on each of the drives (mirrors perhaps) so that if I have any type of hardware of software failure, I would have an excellent chance of recovering in a short period of time.  Your help is appreciated.  

How should I setup a new DELL desktop to make it easy to recover problems that I might encounter?

A desktop computer is a personal computer designed for use at a single location due to its size and power requirements, usually by one person. The most common configuration has a case that houses the power supply, motherboard, disk storage (usually one or more hard disk drives and optical disc drives); a keyboard and mouse for input; and computer monitor and printer for output. The case may be oriented horizontally and placed atop a desk or vertically and placed underneath or beside a desk.

Desktops

A personal computer is a general-purpose computer whose size, capabilities and price make it useful for individuals, and is intended to be operated directly by an end-user with no intervening computer time-sharing models that allowed systems to be used by many people, usually at the same time. Personal computers may be connected to a local area network (LAN), either by a cable or a wireless connection, and through that to the Internet. A personal computer may be a laptop computer or a desktop computer running an operating system such as Windows, Linux or Macintosh OS.