CD-ROM problems , HD partitions lost after file copy

[rkauer]

 You didn't mention the most important:

 The HD size and how it is partitioned.

 Advise:

 Make a small boot partition (300Mb is almost an absurd space to that partition).

 Then make a Work partition (can be up to 1Gb), if your HD is big enough.

 Then make a 1.9Gb Games: partition (yeah!), and use the leftover as you want. Files, music, work data, animations, etc.

 Just two more tips:

 1. any partition who pass the 4Gb border must partitioned and formatted using the OS3.9 HDToolbox.

 2. Use preferably SFS instead FFS for those partitions.

[rkauer]

 Low the maxtransfer value (using HDtoolbox) on each partition to 0x001FE1 or lower (less than 8kb each chunk). Must cure the bad behaviour when transferring large files.