On Fri, 2 Jan 2004 20:14:30 +0000 (UTC), "Alan" wrote:
I have a 40 gig hard drive which is used for everything including photo storage. Having bought a 6 megapixel camera, I felt I needed more storage space so I’ve installed a second 200 gig hard drive and wonder how can I best use this new drive for image storing only. Suggestions would be appreciated.
Alan
I am sure that you will eventually get all sorts of ideas but the one I followed, advised by a knowledgeable friend has been my stand by for years.
Whatever the size of the disks, I have 2 partition on each disk. The first is 8 gb for the OS and the rest of that for programs.
E: hold the backups of the c:drive plus some of the programs I have for evaluation.
The F: drive is used only for video editing and some storage of Photos.
The idea of the 8 GB C:drive is that from time to time one might get into trouble with the OS, in particular win 98SE. 2000 does very much better.
It is so easy to sort that when the drive is small. I can format, install OS and do the restore from backup in 90 minutes. It does depend on a rigid system where backup is once per week and where you have the space to keep the latest 3 copies
My camera is only 2 MP but as it is a 2100 Olympus I rarely have to do any cropping. I can get an awful lot of pictures on a DVD. Video is another lump of trouble but then I keep images on tape until I have written the first good DVD. Only then do I reuse the tape.
For your information, my stats are:
Win 2000, Pentium 4 2.4 Ghz
1 Gb memory,ADSL
80+200 GB of disc space,Oly C2100 & Optio S
Burners CD and DVD (Sony make)
Borge Pedersen 🙂
Perth, Australia
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