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Subject: [OM] Re: OT software question
From: "Bart Wientjes" <bartjew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 14:38:01 +0100
Mike,

I have very good experience with PowerQuest Partition Magic, mostly under
w2k, but XP as well.

It is best to have the two dsiks on separate controlers. When using IDE/ATA
never put the drives on the same data cable, because then you can only
access ONE drive at a time. You don't want that, you want to access them
simultaneously.

Genarally, use the fastest disk as the one that gets accessed most frequent
in applications that have disk IO as a bottleneck.
E.g.:
* while editing, Photoshopt benefits greatly from a fast scratchdisk.
* While opening and saving photos, it benefits when your files are stored on
the faster disk.
* If you put your operating system on the fastest disk, your PC wil boot the
fastest.
Just remember that it is usually sub-optimal to put everything on the same
physical disk (regardless of partitions), because a disk can be read/written
at only one location at the time. So if you would store your photos on the
same disk that is used as scratchdisk, the PC would be reading the photo
from one location and creating the scratchfile at the same time on the same
disk on a second location. You don't want that, because reading the photo
would be delayed by creating the scratchfile and vice versa.

One easy solution would probably be to use the old disk for work (photos and
what have you), and do all other stuff to the new disk. THis is the approach
I would have:
Use partition magic to copy all partitions from the old disk to the new one.
remove the old disk, and test
Use partition magic to re partition the new disk (safe for data). At least
have a separate partition for scratchfiles.
Test if that works for a few days, while keeping the old disk safe as a
fallback somewhere in a drawer
If that works OK, put in the old disk, repartition it. This disk will
contain your work; so move all work to here.

If you are moving from IDE to SATA as a boot disk, FIRST run the computer
with the new disk as a secondary disk, so you are sure that the drivers are
present and loaded in your OS. Otherwise the boot sequence will NEVER
complete once you are running from the new disk.

In my experience, these projects are never hassle-free. When you plan well
in advance, and have a little luck, you just might succeed.
A word from the wise: make backups on beforehand and verify those. Try to
have backout options available as long as possible. Be prepared to be
disappointed :)

Good luck,
Bart

On 11/25/06, Richard Ociepka <ociepka@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Mike wrote:
> > I'm going to order a 10,000rpm hard drive. Hope to speed things up a
> bit.
> > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822136033
> > I'm wondering how best to set it up. I assume that I should make it my
> > bootable drive.
>
> I would run the fast drive as the Master and the other as a Slave.
> If you are running Windows XP ghosting can be tricky.
>
> I use Ghost 2002 and I use the third choice as it is the only one that
> seems to work for XP.
>
> Dick
>
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