Re: Swap File on External Hard Drive
From: Al Dykes (adykes_at_panix.com)
Date: 02/19/05
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Date: 19 Feb 2005 10:20:50 -0500
In article <1108816305.128884.221170@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
Matt Pierce <CousCous2@gmail.com> wrote:
>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
>
I'm not sure XP will allow you to make a drive that can be removed as
swap. Bettwe yoiu should burn some of yoiur old files into CDRs and make
space on C for sawp.
YOu could aslo pop a bare disk inside yoiur machine as a second
drive and put swap there. You can also image your C drive to it as a
backup stragtegy.
A 40GB 7200rmp disk is about $50 and would be a speed boost
for your old machine.
I see you run graphics software. MAX out the memory. It's the
cheapest performance boost you can get.
FInd out where your space is being eaten up and come up with a strategy
for dealing with it.
with NTFS on your C drive you can use the compression property to make
lots of space if your data is in an uncompressed format.
-- a d y k e s @ p a n i x . c o m Don't blame me. I voted for Gore.
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