I added my old 120GB server hard drive to my eMachine. Windows and Ubuntu now have drives to themselves. I spent what was probably literally half an hour staring at the JKDefrag screen, until I realized that because my Firefox profile was on the Linux drive I could browse without locking up too many files. QDB FTW.
When I put the drive in I was hoping they would be cable select, (ATA >.<) but they weren’t. Luckily, I had taken one of my 20GB drives from the school over here, and took a jumper from that to set the drive to secondary. Before installing Intrepid, I tweaked the BIOS. Apparently I had reset it to defaults after messing with the fan speeds, so I once again disabled the onboard sound and video. After some research, I also enabled ROM shadowing and some other stuff in the hopes of extra speed. Intrepid is shiny.
It’s nice to have more space. The extra space allowed for a thorough defrag. I ran JKDefrag twice – once to sort everything alphabetically, another to defragment. Woo.