Ive been sort of confused on this matter as i've heard two different views. I have a 250GB hard drive. what i want to do is create two partitions. one ROUGHLY 100GB for my windows install. the other ROUGHLY 150GB as my storage space. So what would happen with the 150GB is, i'd put all my movies, music, videos, photos, files, or anything else that's important...

my questions is.

if for some reason my OS crashes, or I want to reinstall windows again, and delete the 100GB partition, recreate it and isntall windows again, would i be able to access all of the other documents on my second 150GB partition? or would i no longer be able to access it. please let me know if there's any point to doing this, because if not i'll just make one large partition for everything. thanks.

You will really only run into problems if you install programs onto the non-OS partition. The usage you mentioned, music, movies etc will be fine. The reason you would have problems with programs is that when you re-install Windows on the "OS" partition, the registry will not contain information about those programs any more. I have a "media" partition on my PC for exactly the same purpose.

thanks, i appreciate the help