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eyewoo
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I'm getting a new computer delivered tomorrow - a Dell laptop with a 17" screen and 2 gig of RAM... Can't wait!
Question: As dekivered, the drive will have one partition. I want to partition off a few gigs for Photoshop's scratch disk. The OS is XP home edition. Does anyone know how to create a second partion?
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| Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 2:36 pm |
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As far as I know you�d have to reformat the drive to partition it, unless you have a tool like Partition Magic. I don�t even know if that application is still around and how much it costs.
If you don�t mind the system reinstall, then it�s quite simple. On the start of installing windows, in those blue install screens, you�ll get to a point where it asks you where to install windows. In that part you can delete partitions, create new etc and then choose into which to install windows.
Being a laptop PC I�m not all sure on that though. I did one of those recovery installs some weeks ago on my sisters laptop, but I don�t trust them anymore now. The battery ran out because I forgot to plug it in and I had to reinstall AGAIN after formatting the hdd because he was caught in a loop of restarting, since he thought he had installed everything ok, but windows didn�t get to load fully, lacking some vital files. |
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| Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 2:50 pm |
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Hi eyewoo
I think gLitter is correct. The way to do it w/out a 3rd party program is to re-install windows and set up your partitions during the installation setup.
I believe partition magic is still around. I used it a few years ago on my system. It's a great program if you go with that. I think it cost about $50. But I actually only "borrowed" my copy. You run it over windows and it will allow you to create partitions w/out having to having to go through a re-install. |
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eyewoo
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| Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 8:44 am |
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once a partition has been made and system installed on it, u can't do anything about it with the basic windows tools, Partition Magic is one of the only tools that will allow you to edit the partition table without first deleting the partition..
i used it on my compaq when i got it, but its been 2 years and its due for a total re-install (taking XP off and putting 2K on) |
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| Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 4:20 pm |
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For advanced users, there is a free program called Ranish Partition Manager thats similiar to Partition Magic. Here is a brief description:
Ranish Partition Manager is a program that partitions hard disks. For example, it will let you to run Win ME, Win 2k, and Linux on a single box. In addition, you can copy, move, and resize disk partitions. The program uses a commandline interface and is intended for advanced users that are comfortable with DOS screens.
Available from http://www.ranish.com/part/ |
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| Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 4:23 pm |
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| I actually did think about suggesting the disk management tool. The instruction set linked in the thread talks about creating a new partition with "unallocated" disk space. The other day before I responded to I played around w/ my disk management console on my system, it didn't allow me to add a new partition because my disk were already allocated. I think the disk management tool is used more for after you have XP installed and say you want to add another physical hard drive to your system. Then you load up disk management tool and partition that new drive anyway you would like. So again, as far as partitioning the disk while XP is already loaded, i'm not convinced that disk management will do what you want eyewoo. |
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| Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2005 2:35 am |
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That�s not directly a hint on your planned task but I�m not quite sure if it is usefull at all to give photoshop an own partition on your system. It�s often said that photoshop should get it�s own harddrive so that it�s swap file does not compete with windows� but that really means, that you would need a second physical harddrive. If you just create a second partition than the photoshop and windows swap files will be on the same harddrive and compete for the same disk reader heads and thats the real performance problem.
Besides, it always is a good idea to have a clear structure on your harddrive, so you can�t do wrong with partitions. Also 2Gigs of RAM should minimize your problems with swap files.
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| Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2005 7:31 am |
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digitaldecoy... Iwork on very large files, often with several hundred layers, so even with two gig of ram, PShop goes into swap to scratch disk ffrequently. And the scratch disk files sometimes get huge, so if the disk is fragmented, the access does get slower. A separate partition solves that problem.
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