Unfortunately, I managed to sort of trip myself up on this one. Having the new laptop, with all that room, I decided to do some uncluttering of sorts. I went through all of my old archive CDs and copied the data over onto the new laptop, tried to weed out most of the duplicates, and tried to get everything nicely organized. It’s just that I had a bit more stuff than I thought. I filled my external hard drive, and the main partition on the laptop, but still had about 20 DVDs and 50 CDs left to go through, so I went ahead and formatted the empty partition and used it “temporarily” for data storage. I’m still trying to get all the stuff cleared off of it, and I might have to get another external drive to move things onto.

As for the VM idea, I’m certainly not a gamer, but I’m a musician, and I will probably keep Windows on its own boot. I already get a few dropouts and such when I’m playing or recording too many tracks at once, and I can’t imagine that adding another layer of abstraction is going to help that out any. In any case, I’m waiting for the tax return now, and I’m thinking that a new external drive might just be on the way…