Re: partioning HD w/NTFS

Placing the pagefile on a slave drive (connected to the same IDE channel)
buys you a sum total of nothing. In fact, it may slow the system down. The
two drives write consecutively. When one drive is in read/write mode the
other drive CAN NOT do the same. The time is split between the two drives.

Place the pagefile on a hard drive on the secondary IDE controller and you
can have concurrent reading/writing of BOTH drives. Here you will likely see
a gain if you are using programs that make extensive use of the pagefile.

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Richard Urban
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"jsph1961" <jsph1961@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have 2 HDs on my PC, on the master (80GB) I have XP pro and everything
else. On the slave(40GB)I put a paging file and nothing else. I want to
partition so that my O/S is alone on the master ;so what size will suffice
for the O/S? I then want to put all the hot fixes into a folder on a
seperate
partition. Then all my games on another then text files on another and so
on... Also concerning paging file. By having the paging file on a
different
HD other than where the O/S is I'm concerned about the memory dump. How
large should I make the paging file on the master to handle the memory
dump?
And how large should the paging file be on the slave which is accessed
less?
I have 1 GB of memory to play with. Will the /S be able to access the
games
even if they are on a HD without an O/S on it?


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