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Originally Posted by iron25
First of all, ditch the 4gb drive as I'm assuming it is an old drive and therefore has a slower rpm and less cache than the others and the fact that you've installed the os on it means you've already slowed down your system. By how much, who knows.
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Hmm, thought as much. Don't
really want to go through the nause of re-installing the OS though. How would Windows cope if I copied the entire drive to a partition on another drive, deleted the original partition and then renamed the new partition to C: ? I'm assuming that's not going to work though because Windows would need to be running at the time?
Luckily there's not a lot on the machine so it's not going to be too difficult to do a fresh install.....
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Originally Posted by iron25
Another tip is to put your paging file on a different disk to your system files.
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Yeah, reading that article it would appear that you shouldn't create any other partitions on that drive. That leaves me either having the page file on the (old and slow) 4Gb drive, or wasting an entire 80Gb drive on it
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Originally Posted by iron25
Also, smaller partitions are better than larger ones and they also have the benefit of allowing you to just format part of the disk if need be instead of the whole disk.
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Hadn't realised that bit about the partition size, makes sense though now you mention it. Had already decided to keep the partitions as small as I thought I could get away with.
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Thanks for those links, I'll take a look at the backup software. I was considering something called Ghost Image (I'm sure that was it) that I saw a number of years ago, this would (presumably) allow me just to copy the entire image back onto the Laptop/Server partition if I needed to rather than having to do a complete re-install.....
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Looks like that Acronis software does the same thing