[Novalug] Hard Drive Data Recovery

[Angelo Bertolli]

I've had the worst luck with hard drives.  For me it's a combination of 
having crappy electrical wiring with voltage flux whenever something 
gets turned on, and with lack of climate control for the heat.  But 
usually, I find that only a PORTION of the disk gets messed up, and I 
can recover by marking the bad blocks.  That's fine but very annoying.

But here's the crazy thing:  I spend decent money to get a 160G hard 
drive only to use about 4G of it!  So my questions to this group is:  
can I set up some kind of RAID with partitions of the same drive?  The 
redundancy would at least help me to keep my data from permanent 
damage.  I know it's not "safe" to rely on that, but I figure if I'm not 
using the full drive anyway, why not set it up just in case it helps?

Angelo