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June 14th 08, 06:16 PM
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utilizing second hard drive
my system has two hard drives. is it possible to improve performance by
utilizing second (D) drive. there are times when the (C) drives seems to be working overtime what with all the background features in Vista. I'm not a techie, so would appreciate if somebody could explain what I need to do.. I do know that they are set up as master/slave. -- Bressler 
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June 14th 08, 07:34 PM
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On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 11:16:00 -0700, Bressler
wrote: my system has two hard drives. is it possible to improve performance by utilizing second (D) drive. Two things you can do... Move your page file there. It's simple to do... Control Panel (Classic View) - System - Advanced System Settings - Performance Settings - Advanced tab - Change virtual memory. Move your temporary internet files and cookies there. In IE: Tools - Internet Options - Settings (under browsing history) - Move Folder there are times when the (C) drives seems to be working overtime what with all the background features in Vista. I'm not a techie, so would appreciate if somebody could explain what I need to do.. I do know that they are set up as master/slave.
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June 14th 08, 07:44 PM
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Bressler wrote:
my system has two hard drives. is it possible to improve performance by utilizing second (D) drive. there are times when the (C) drives seems to be working overtime what with all the background features in Vista. I'm not a techie, so would appreciate if somebody could explain what I need to do.. I do know that they are set up as master/slave. Well it gets complex sometimes. Master / Slave implies they are connected to the same IDE bus. There are usually two IDE buses, and the ideal situation is to spread the load since however many drives are on the bus the speed of the bus is the limiting factor. To copy from hard drive to hard drive your best speed would likely be to have them on separate buses, to copy from CD to hard drive then you would want them on separate buses, but unless you are doing a lot of that then the master / slave configuration doesn't matter too much. Where it might help is if you wanted to use the one drive for your swap file or virtual memory. However you may get an even better improvement by adding more real memory. What does your system have?
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June 14th 08, 08:00 PM
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utilizing second hard drive
my system has two hard drives. is it possible to improve performance by
utilizing second (D) drive. Two things you can do... Move your page file there. Yes, just be aware that you still need a small pagefile on C: - Vista will complain if you set it for less than 200 megs.
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June 14th 08, 08:03 PM
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Not if they are on the same IDE Bus it won't.
Nonny wrote: On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 11:16:00 -0700, Bressler wrote: my system has two hard drives. is it possible to improve performance by utilizing second (D) drive. Two things you can do... Move your page file there. It's simple to do... Control Panel (Classic View) - System - Advanced System Settings - Performance Settings - Advanced tab - Change virtual memory. Move your temporary internet files and cookies there. In IE: Tools - Internet Options - Settings (under browsing history) - Move Folder there are times when the (C) drives seems to be working overtime what with all the background features in Vista. I'm not a techie, so would appreciate if somebody could explain what I need to do.. I do know that they are set up as master/slave.
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June 14th 08, 08:09 PM
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If you are not a techie are you sure you have 2 hd's and not 2 partitions,
and are you also sure the second isnt your recovery partition? "Bressler" wrote in message ... my system has two hard drives. is it possible to improve performance by utilizing second (D) drive. there are times when the (C) drives seems to be working overtime what with all the background features in Vista. I'm not a techie, so would appreciate if somebody could explain what I need to do.. I do know that they are set up as master/slave. -- Bressler
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June 14th 08, 09:26 PM
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On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 13:00:57 -0700, "Victek"
wrote: my system has two hard drives. is it possible to improve performance by utilizing second (D) drive. Two things you can do... Move your page file there. Yes, just be aware that you still need a small pagefile on C: - Vista will complain if you set it for less than 200 megs. No it won't. I have a 2gig page file on another drive and none on my C... no complaints. No errors in any event logs.
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June 15th 08, 02:03 PM
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utilizing second hard drive
my system has two hard drives. is it possible to improve performance by
utilizing second (D) drive. Two things you can do... Move your page file there. Yes, just be aware that you still need a small pagefile on C: - Vista will complain if you set it for less than 200 megs. No it won't. I have a 2gig page file on another drive and none on my C... no complaints. No errors in any event logs. Let me be more specific. Multiple sources say that a small pagefile is necessary on C: for crash memory dumps. If you don't have the pagefile then you don't get that information in the event of a crash. When I was resetting the pagefile on C: Vista gave a warning basically saying this in non-technical terms. I'm not aware of any other issues. Regarding performance, whatever benefit is gained by moving most of the total paging space to a different hard drive will not be lost by having a small file on C:
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