partitioning

ron-mattron-matt
edited April 2005 in Science & Tech
I've got an 80 gig hd. I'm using 75% and would like to partition it so that I can run photoshop on it's own scratch disk. Question is, is there a way to do this in XP without having to reformat the disk and reinstall everything? Help would be appreciated.

Comments

  • shwaipshwaip bluffin' with my muffin Icrontian
    edited April 2005
    I've done it using partitionmagic (8). I don't think the built-in windows xp disk management can do it though.
  • JustinJustin Atlanta
    edited April 2005
    HAve you tried the partitioning ability in XP?
  • TexTex Dallas/Ft. Worth
    edited April 2005
    You won't gain any speed giving it a seperate scratch partition. It needs a seperate DISK not partition to help. A seperate drive letter hurts not helps if its a partition on the same drive. especially so since your already 75 percent full. Meaning the partiton would be at the end of the drive where I-O is the slowest. So you would be forcing teh heads to move way down to the slowest part of the drive and forcing it to use that portion of the disk for its scratch area.

    Bad idea.

    Tex
  • ron-mattron-matt
    edited April 2005
    Thanks for the info. (actually I'm 75% available 25% full) I'll just levae it be as it is.
  • TexTex Dallas/Ft. Worth
    edited April 2005
    Sorry I misunderstood when you said above "I'm using 75%".

    I assumed you had USED 75 percent?

    Tex
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