I'll also vouch for using a different drive for dual booting. That way, you can choose at the BIOS level which OS to use, and not worry about the boot sector becoming corrupted. Windows never sees Linux, and you can read and write to Windows from Linux if need be. I've borked GRUB on in the past, and recovering was never fun.

Plus, it's always nice to have a "spare" drive when one of them invariably goes out. My Linux hard drive bit the dust just last week.

As John mentioned, WUBI might be an attractive option, since you've got disk space a-plenty.


-- David Cuny
My virtual singer development blog

Vocal control, you say. Never heard of it. Is that some kind of ProTools thing?