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Da_Stimulator
DEV Team Forum Moderator
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 Posted - 10 January 2005 : 12:14:28
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Ok, after my HDD started making wierd noises, I went to a local flea market and got a "new" one (it dosnt make noise... so far).
Anyway, it survived my brutal test phase to see if it would cut it as my main drive. So I went through the process of transferring everything to it, then I took my old one, and destroyed it (by smashing it on the driveway) - that was fun.
Anyway, so Now I have a "new" 20 gig drive as my C: drive.
I got fed up with not being able to find a power cord for my external HDD (120 gig), so I ripped it apart, spliced the wires to power it from my computers PS, and connected it just like you normally would (USB/FireWire).
What I want to do is use the external drive (E:) as like a "secondary" drive, to reduce the C: drive use. I've already somewhat began doing this by installing frequently used programs on that instead of C: (such as Yahoo, my editing tools, firefox)
I also moved moved the virtual memory to E: and reduced the C: virtual memory allocation to the minimum.
I was wondering what I could do (if anything) to move *something* to the E: drive, so that when my computer loads windows, maybe I could improve the load-up speed somewhat.
I've already increased boot up speed dramatically by moving all misc stuff from C: to E: (my music files, website files, stuff like that) and defragging C: |
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Edited by - Da_Stimulator on 10 January 2005 12:19:06 |
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D3mon
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Da_Stimulator
DEV Team Forum Moderator
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Posted - 10 January 2005 : 16:04:53
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Thx for the link D3mon, some stuff in there that I handnt done yet.
Anyway, now I have a related error  ... well problem is more the word.
Like I said, I *thought* I had moved my paging file to E:, but when I just restarted my computer, it alerted me that I had no page file.
So after investigating, there was none on C:, but E: had the amount I originally allocated for it. Which was my intention... but for some reason windows dosnt want to write to it? I dont get why its not working that way... |
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Edited by - Da_Stimulator on 10 January 2005 16:06:20 |
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-gary
Development Team Member
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Posted - 10 January 2005 : 16:25:33
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If a swap file on a USB drive worked at all, it would be a bad idea anyway.
My guess would be it wouldn't work since Windows would be looking for the file long before the USB drivers had been loaded and the drive mounted. Some of the new PCs that can boot from USB *might* be able to get around it, but with the latency an overhead of USB you wouldn't want to do it even if you could. |
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Da_Stimulator
DEV Team Forum Moderator
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Posted - 10 January 2005 : 16:28:02
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| so maybe I should just plug this drive into my IDE card.... |
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Edited by - Da_Stimulator on 10 January 2005 16:28:47 |
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Gremlin
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Posted - 10 January 2005 : 19:17:57
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quote:
Originally posted by Da_Stimulator
so maybe I should just plug this drive into my IDE card....
Yes that would be a better solution imho. |
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