re: _RESTORE\TEMP replicating files
Wednesday, July 14, 2004 at 8:04 am
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Posted by Cam
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Hello Mike, Maybe easier if I tell you what I do with my ME computer.
I got it as a shop demonstrator at a reduced price with a 19" monitor, but with a
60Gb hard-drive.
It was originally set up in Dutch and had to be converted to French as I am learning
French as I go along.
It was VERY unstable and always crashing, blue screen every day. That was fixed by
altering the MinSPs setting in system.ini and upping the RAM to 512Mb.
Still unstable and somewhat unpredictable, until I came across www.ntfs.com and had
a look at the question of the FAT32 File Allocation System versus the NTFS file system.
"ME runs better on a small drive volume."
So I partitioned the drive. Big difference!
The C: drive is down to just 4·0Gb and has the operating system and programming.
The full install.
The D: drive (7·6Gb) has all Office Documents and spare programs in storage.
The E: drive (13·2Gb) runs the fixed swap-file (to prevent Windows always re-sizing
it) and holds the Email, and ...
The F: drive (30·0Gb) holds Music and anything else.
It also has an Image of the C: drive so that, if the C: drive gets damaged by a virus,
I just have to format it and restore the entire operating system and programming
from the image ... in less than an hour.
As the C: drive is only 4·0Gb it would normally have 4096 byte clusters, but it it
faster running on 8192 byte clusters, so I use A:\>format c: /Z:16 to get the 8192
byte (8k) clusters.
This has the advantage that MSDEFRAG and ScanDisk run much faster too when it comes
to maintaining the drive and files are less fragmented sitting on a larger than default
cluster.
As there is no storage on this drive the Operating System then operates in the best
environment, in my personal opinion.
I have a DVD-ROM drive Q: and a CD-RW drive R:
If you want to partition in this way (yes that is one long command, btw) then you
would need to burn all of your wife & son's documents to CDR and then use the fdisk
program to do the partitioning.
A:\>fdisk
Delete drive D:
Delete the extended partition.
Delete the Primary DOS drive.
Create a new 4000Mb Primary DOS drive.
SET IT ACTIVE !
Create an Extended DOS drive using the rest of the available drive space.
Create a 10000Mb Logical drive D:
Create a 10000Mb Logical drive E:
Create a Logical drive F: using the rest of the available drive space.
Four drives in all which is the maximum.
Your wife's documents on D: & your son's documents on E:
With a 40Gb drive, a 4·0Gb drive C: is more than enough, leaving about 35Gb to partition.
Depending on your use of the computer, say two 10·0Gb drive partitions and the remainder
for the F: drive.
Whatever sizes you put in you can always resize as they fill up and you may find
that you need more space on one partition and less on another. Zeleps Partition Resizer
will do this and it is Freeware.
It cannot make the C: drive smaller with this program, like you can with some, so
it is just as well to start off "small". You can always make it bigger if you have
to.
Btw, I have just seen a new Medion desktop computer for sale with the one box, but
with two monitors, two keyboards, two mice, running XP home. Just built for such
a situation.
Mainframes huh! You know more about all this than the rest of us put together I suppose.
We only had data-loggers and radars when I was at sea as an Engineer.
Its just the maniacs who have the attack computers and so on.
Mac
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