Windows File Hierarchy

I am hoping some other power users can chime in here and offer suggestions on what they do.

My laptop is organized with 4 partitions:

- C:\ = Windows Root
- D:\ = Application settings
- E:\ = Standalone applications
- F:\ = Personal Files

Now that I have a large monitor again I would like to move back to my desktop. If I include those partitions this is what I would be looking at.

Drive 1
- Partition one = Slackware
- Partition two = Swap
- C:\ = Windows Root
- D:\ = Application settings
- E:\ = Standalone applications
- F:\ = Personal Files
- G:\ = Other Files

Storage Drives (Each is a physical)
- H:\
- I:\
- J:\
- K:\

Physical CDROMs
- L:\
- M:\

Virtual CDROMS
- N:\
- O:\

+ any removable media (Thumb Drive, External Hard Drive, etc)

Can you see a problem? I really do not want to have to deal with that many drives. I have 4 of the drives on the desktop mapped on the laptop right now and I feel that is too much. I do not want to span the drives with a dynamic disk and I do not want to setup RAID. What is even more of a problem is that C and the slackware partition have to be primary. There is a primary partition limit of 4 for linux, at least from what I read. I guess I could make the settings and programs primary, but I would like my personal stuff to be primary also. The reason being that the partitions on the other drives are all setup as primary partitions; primary partitions are setup before logical so even though F is the 4th partition it wont come up as the 4th, the 2nd drive would come up before it. I can change drive letters, but it is just one more annoying step. I would like prefer to keep a drive for portable apps and settings, but I may have to give that up. I am however considering moving those two drives to a thumb drive. They are not too expensive and would allow me to keep the information portable.

On the desktop/server I started moving some files into a UNIX file hierarchy. My databases and www files along with my repositories are all stored in C:\var; my additional programs are stored in C:\opt. The reason for this is when I originally setup the machine for a server I had a lot of packages in the root of the drive, which annoys the living shit out of me.

I would like to see some of the ways my fellow power users organize their files. And of course once I have your file hierarchy I will be able to h4xoR your b0x and take pictures of your wives changing with the optical light on your mouse. So be afraid be very afraid.