partitioning advice please – 120 GB

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Apr 8, 2004
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I have an older machine (PIII/733mhz, 768mb ram, 20GB hard drive,Win98SE) on which I run PS7.
There is only one partition on this entire drive.
I have just installed a second hard drive 120GB primarily for PS and a video editing program.
This drive is cabled with the first hard drive on the same Ide channel. I also want to upgrade to PS8/CS and thus have to either install Win2000 or XP.
Question is how best to use the 120GB space –
considering Windows 2000/xp, the Win swap/paging file, PS, the PS scratch disk, the large PS image/data files, other large video/data files, and other programs.
When I’m all set upI’d like to be able to remove the original 20GB drive and use it elsewhere.
thanks
F

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Brian K
Apr 8, 2004
http://partition.radified.com/

Very interesting article.

"strand" wrote in message
I have an older machine (PIII/733mhz, 768mb ram, 20GB hard drive,Win98SE)
on
which I run PS7.
There is only one partition on this entire drive.
I have just installed a second hard drive 120GB primarily for PS and a
video
editing program.
This drive is cabled with the first hard drive on the same Ide channel. I also want to upgrade to PS8/CS and thus have to either install Win2000
or
XP.
Question is how best to use the 120GB space –
considering Windows 2000/xp, the Win swap/paging file, PS, the PS scratch disk, the large PS image/data files, other large video/data files, and
other
programs.
When I’m all set upI’d like to be able to remove the original 20GB drive
and
use it elsewhere.
thanks
F

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strand
Apr 8, 2004
thanks.

http://partition.radified.com/

Very interesting article.

"strand" wrote in message
I have an older machine (PIII/733mhz, 768mb ram, 20GB hard
drive,Win98SE)
on
which I run PS7.
There is only one partition on this entire drive.
I have just installed a second hard drive 120GB primarily for PS and a
video
editing program.
This drive is cabled with the first hard drive on the same Ide channel. I also want to upgrade to PS8/CS and thus have to either install Win2000
or
XP.
Question is how best to use the 120GB space –
considering Windows 2000/xp, the Win swap/paging file, PS, the PS
scratch
disk, the large PS image/data files, other large video/data files, and
other
programs.
When I’m all set upI’d like to be able to remove the original 20GB drive
and
use it elsewhere.
thanks
F

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xalinai_Two
Apr 8, 2004
On Wed, 7 Apr 2004 21:22:54 -0400, "strand"
wrote:

I have an older machine (PIII/733mhz, 768mb ram, 20GB hard drive,Win98SE) on which I run PS7.
There is only one partition on this entire drive.
I have just installed a second hard drive 120GB primarily for PS and a video editing program.
This drive is cabled with the first hard drive on the same Ide channel. I also want to upgrade to PS8/CS and thus have to either install Win2000 or XP.
Question is how best to use the 120GB space –
considering Windows 2000/xp, the Win swap/paging file, PS, the PS scratch disk, the large PS image/data files, other large video/data files, and other programs.
When I’m all set upI’d like to be able to remove the original 20GB drive and use it elsewhere.
thanks
F
I’d create at least two partitions (20GB /100GB)to separate system and user data.
If you only have one drive, it doesn’t matter where you place pagefile and scratchfiles, it is the same mechanics for all partitions – only recommendation is to create large pagefile and scratchfile areas before you fill the disk with other things to avoid having those files fragmented.

This in mind, I’d keep the old drive to use it for the PS scratchfiles while the pagefile should reside in the system partition of the primary disk.

Michael
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Brian K
Apr 9, 2004
http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.htm

http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/c1c6.htm

Just to further confuse you and make the decision harder.

Brian

"strand" wrote in message
I have an older machine (PIII/733mhz, 768mb ram, 20GB hard drive,Win98SE)
on
which I run PS7.
There is only one partition on this entire drive.
I have just installed a second hard drive 120GB primarily for PS and a
video
editing program.
This drive is cabled with the first hard drive on the same Ide channel. I also want to upgrade to PS8/CS and thus have to either install Win2000
or
XP.
Question is how best to use the 120GB space –
considering Windows 2000/xp, the Win swap/paging file, PS, the PS scratch disk, the large PS image/data files, other large video/data files, and
other
programs.
When I’m all set upI’d like to be able to remove the original 20GB drive
and
use it elsewhere.
thanks
F

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