Re: Swap File on External Hard Drive

From: R. McCarty (PcEngWork-NoSpam__at_mindspring.com)
Date: 02/19/05 

Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 12:37:22 GMT

Unless you have other unstated reasons for an external drive, I
would get a newer internal drive. Clone your existing XP install
to it - Backup your data. Use the new drive as your XP system
disk and boot to it. Then format your existing drive and use
it as a secondary. Place your Swapfile on it and perhaps create
a dedicated partition for personal data. To save money, I would
get a smaller new drive and not the latest 300+ Gigabyte - say a
80-100 Gigabyte which you should be able to find for ~$75.00.

"Matt Pierce" <CousCous2@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1108816305.128884.221170@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> Hi Everyone.
>
> My computer is getting pretty old and I'm always trying to find ways to
> get a little extra time out of it. My HD (27GB) has been filling up
> fast since I got broadband too. So I decided that an External HD might
> be able to solve those problems.
>
> The HD I'm looking at is an Iogear 80GB Firewire model. In my
> understanding it comes pre-formatted with three FAT32 partitions. It's
> also faster (7200rpm) than my current HD.
>
> I'm running Windows XP Service Pack 2 on an NTFS formatted disk. My
> processor is an older Intel Pentium III 600mhz. The RAM on this system
> is maxed out at 384MB. Daily I run Graphics/Video Editing software that
> fills my RAM and starts writing to the Swap File.
>
> I've read, and believe that moving the Swap File to a seperate disk can
> improve performance. However I'm not certain that the Swap File can be
> moved to an external HD. So now my questions..
>
>
> Can a copy of Windows XP running off of an NTFS disk store it's Swap
> File on an External HD which is formatted as FAT32?
>
> Can the partitions of a single drive be formatted using different
> filesystems? (I.E. One NTFS partition for video and one FAT32 for
> average sized files)
>
>
> Any help you could give me will be very much appreciated. I really need
> to know the answer to these two things before I purchase anything else.
> If I'm entirely mistaken about my belief in moving the Swap File please
> let me know.
>
> Thanks,
> Matt Pierce
>

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