I'm pretty sure that the first fellow was suggesting that you change your default location for your media to one of the other drives. That would probably work.
The second fellow was suggesting that you repartition your drives.
I don't think that partitions will take any significant amount of life off your hard drive.
I recently bought a very expensive computer with a lot of upgrades from a canadian outfit and told the builder to partition my hardrive to make the C 80 gig and D 80 gig and and the E 75 gig , when I got home I discovere it the C only had 10 gig and the E and D had the most gig allotted to them , well after putting photos and music and some utlilites on C now I have no room left at all on it for more photos or music or utlilites , and the place where I got the computer went out of business in the usa so I would have to send it back to Canada to change the configuration , which of course I would never do , even if they were in the usa I still don?t think I would want to unplug it ?? I talked to two different salesmen one in the compusa store another in circuit city store and the first salesmen gave me this advice , go to start .> my computer > and horizontal tileing bring up the window with the E drive which is in my computer with all my drives and partitions then also bring up the my documents folder along side the my computer window so now I have two windows side by side then right click on photos folder in the my documents folder in documents ?settings and while keeping finger on mouse drag the photos folder into the E drive/ partition and choose move here then go into the E drive and I will see the photos file in there and just double click it and it will open up just like when it was in C in documents and settings the default path and he said to do the same thing with music only instead of moving it to E move it to media player or was it move it to E and from E to media player on the playlist , now with the music that seems even less logical to me then moving the photos folder then just double click on photos document after locating it in the E partition and it will come up no different then when it was in the C partition , but maybe he knows ??
And besides that would my operating system know where to find it if it was in C and now its in D drive , would I get a message can?t locate path or something like that ? , another salesmen had another more logical solution , buy partition magic from circuit city and he said do this ?. Right click on the 80 gig D drive and choose delete ,and delete the Ddrive / partition and then merely put mouse cursor on the C drive and strech it out with the mouse like stretching out a window on windows to make it wider only keep pulling it till its 89 gig and has taken up all the new space floating around created from deleting the D drive , then If I want I can always move the photos and music to the E drive like the other salesmen said .He also said its not good to have more then two partitions because the hardrive has to work to hard that way and it would wear out faster is that true ?

Chowhound
Comic Vine
GameFAQs
GameSpot
Giant Bomb
TechRepublic