Ok George, thanks for that. Strangely enough, my computer came with the exact configuration, the operating system and programmes on the main drive and a recovery partition, which I've now removed and use as a data drive. (Yes, I did create the necessary recovery disks.) However, I will take this into consideration, and thanks for the help.
-- Chris Hallsworth E-mail: christopherhallsworth71@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx MSN: ch9675@xxxxxxxxxxx Skype: chrishallsworth7266----- Original Message ----- From: "George Bell" <george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2008 4:30 PM Subject: [access-uk] Re: Question on external hard drive
Hi Chris, For what it's worth, my own preference, if you can, would be to split the laptop drive into two partitions. 1) For Operating system and Programs. 2) For Data. I'd then create an image of the first drive, since this would only suffer major changes when you added or removed programs. You could even keep that image on the external drive if needs be. The external drive can then be used as a total backup of the Data drive. To be honest, I very much doubt that running programs from the external drive will be any quicker. A USB 2 drive is certainly not faster in terms of data transfer than an internal drive. And to cap it all, if you did configure things that way, you'd then be essentially married to the external drive and have to take it with you if you wanted to travel anywhere. George. -----Original Message----- From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Chris Hallsworth Sent: 01 October 2008 16:19 To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] Question on external hard drive Hi all, I've just ordered a Trekstor 160 GB external hard drive from www.dabs.com. I had an idea on how to use it, but I'd like your thoughts on this please. I'd like to run all my software, except Windows and associated programmes, on the drive. What will it be like in terms of stability, reliability, etc, because I hear that if you install and run software on an external hard drive, Windows won't have to use so much virtual memory and nor will it need to access the internal hard drive much, hence the perhaps increased stability and reliability. I'm not saying my Vista laptop isn't stable nor reliable; it's completely the opposite, but thought maybe I could increase the performance and decrease the hard drive thrashing by doing what I plan to do. All my data will be backed up to this drive as well. Thanks in advance for any comments regarding this. -- Chris Hallsworth E-mail: christopherhallsworth71@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx MSN: ch9675@xxxxxxxxxxx Skype: chrishallsworth7266 ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq
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