Like most people, there's no reason why you couldn't store your important media files on a separate hard drive or partition. The problem is that if you lose this partition, then you may find that you also lose your downloaded music files. Try going back to iTunes and you'll won't be able to obtain those purchase tracks again. For this reason, we suggest you regularly backup your drive or drive partition. You could easily backup to an external drive, away from your PC and, if you need the data in the future, restore to your computer.

Paragon Drive Backup 9 Express is free backup and drive restore software that will enable you to backup and restore and entire drive or partition. However, as it's free software, you can only perform a once-only backup. You can't perform a differential or incremental backup, for example. You need the full commercial version for this.

Drive Backup 9 Express link.

13 Aug 2008