Re: Can I install a photo-editing app on it's own partition?

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From: Jim Macklin (p51mustang[threeX12)
Date: 12/16/04 

Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 22:09:36 -0600

The reason to have a partition for graphics or data files is
one of file safety. If you have to format and reinstall
your operating system after some crash or failure, the data
files will be safe on the other partition.

Slow downs and such are a function of the CPU, installed RAM
[the more the better] and the speed of your hard drive. A
second hard drive will speed up operation because the two
drives can seek files and do read/write operations faster
than one drive with two or more partitions.

Laptops are almost always slower than desktops because of
power and heat issues. You trade convenience for speed.

If you must use the scanner and camera as data collection
you may not have many options, but for editing and such, you
should certainly get a robust desktop with max RAM, fast
CPU, fast hard drives, etc. 

-- 
Merry Christmas
Have a Safe and Happy New Year
Live Long and Prosper
Jim Macklin
"Claudia Sheridan" <claudiasheridan_dont_spam_me@yahoo.ie> 
wrote in message 
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|I have heard some talk about creating a separate drive for 
storing graphics
| and music files and I was wondering if anyone knew why 
this is?  I am
| working with a lot of image files at the moment via both a 
digital camera
| and a scanner and when I work with them it slows down my 
laptop big time
| when have Internet Explorer and other programs running at 
the same time.  (I
| use Ulead Photoimpact to edit them).
| Could this be improved if the image files, or even the 
entire photo-editing
| apps and files were all  installed on another partition 
(ie. that I would
| have one drive letter dedicated solely to image work)? My 
hard drive is 20GB
| (11GB currently free) and my RAM is 512MB.  There is 
already a small
| partition (roughly 1GB) that came with the laptop which I 
assume to be for a
| page file or bootup or whatever...
|
| -- 
|
| ´~°^§§§  Posted by Claudia  §§§^°~´
|
|

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