NTFS & Networks

this is what i got:

C Drive
Cached speed 159.65 MB/s (120%)
Uncached speed 2.79 MB/s (78%)

D Drive:
Cached speed 193.85 MB/s (146%)
Uncached speed 4.95 MB/s (138%)

D Drive quicker? so should i make that the windows drive?

 

Yup, D drive is almost double the speed.

 

would it make sense to make that the windows drive then?

 

Absolutely!

 

Great! thanx for your help! everyone.

 

SteveS - I understood you had two drives and the sizes noted. But partitions and drives are often not the same. I was suggesting a partition for the OS and the remainder (part of one drive and all of another) as a single large partition.

The 13Gb is certainly the place to put your pagefile and probably your OS. But it has way more space than those will need.

 

13 gig is overkill for just the OS, boot files, and pagefile.
I would split the drive in two, somewhere about 6.5 gig each.
Put the OS on C, with pagefile.
Put all programs on the second partition, probably called D.
Put all storage, MP3's, downloaded stuff, etc. on the 30 gig.
I would split the 30 gig into about 3 10 gig partitions, and use the first partition on it as a ghost image of C, the rest for storage.
If you make the first partition of both drives "active ", then C will be the OS, D will be the clone of C, E will be 6.5 gig remainder of the 13 gig (so C and E are the two partitions of the 13 gig), F, and G will be storage (the remaining 20 gig, split in two, of the 30 gig drive.
If anything ever happens to C that it's beyond repair, you can boot to D (just change boot sequence in BIOS to the other hard drive), or ghost D back to C, and you're back in business in 20 minutes or less.

 

at current my C drive is 15.1gb full! 12.8gb free.

so i cant use my 13gb drive as its not big enough for my use! im really supprised at the size!

but u think i should partition the 30gb drive into two parts. one for windows Dir and one for storage?

 

The drive is so full, because you have Windows and all your programs on it.
What we're proposing is that you put Windows on the first partition of the fastest drive ( C ) and put programs on any other partition, then split the other drive up as well, and clone C to the first partition of it.
You could even dual boot if you chose.

 

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at current my C drive is 15.1gb full! 12.8gb free.
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That may add up to you but not to me.

You say 15.1.gb full

then you say 12.8 free

I think you mean 15.1 gb capacity with 12.8 free so this means you are only using only 2.3 gb. Unless you are using Iraqi math!

Seems you have plenty of free space.

Mike

 

10-4

that adds up

15.1 used
12.8 free
27.9 capacity

Smile!

Mike

 

you thought i ment:

"I think you mean 15.1 gb capacity with 12.8 free so this means you are only using only 2.3 gb. Unless you are using Iraqi math! "

which i didnt. my image shows i use alot of space. thats just the windows drive. so the 13gb drive wouldnt be big enough

 

Are you sure this drive is clean of temps and unnessesary files? And if you have a big pagefile (swapfile) have you moved it to another drive?

Is there much in the add/remove that needs uninstalling?

Is there much in c:\program files that don't have an uninstall in add/remove that you don't use that needs installing?

Have you moved My Documents to another drive?

Finally do you have Music or graphics (photos videos etc) that can be moved to another drive?

These could make drive c: look better!

mike

 

not really much add/remove stuff that i need to get rid of. i usually remove stuff it i dont use it at all

theres only almost 4gb in c:/program files

my documents is on the c drive in usual place

all my music, images, exe's are on a different drive.

my windows folder is 1.78gb

when i go into c:\ and select all files. right click > properties. the size that comes up is just over 7gb. so whats going on?

my pagefile size is:
23/04/2003 12:56:45
Pagefile Physical Location: C:\pagefile.sys
Current Pagefile Usage: 54 MB
Session Peak Usage: 54 MB
Current Pagefile Size: 1152 MB

 

Check the size of Documents and settings.

Also what is the size of My Documents?

And even if it don't help the space problem My Documents is better on another drive so it is somewhat insulated from an OS or some other failure that would not easily let you access the boot drive.

PageFile needs some work it is holding 1.1g but is only using 54meg right now anyway. This (over 1G) is big for a PageFile.

Mike

 

documents and settings is 696mbs

my docs is: 325mbs

isnt a bigger pagefile better? (even tho i agree this is 2 big) how do i make it smaller?

 

Not nessesarilly.

Control Panel-System-advanced-Performance settings-Advanced-Virtual Memory change.

Is your totals begining to add up?

Mike

 

i made it 400mb, that alrite?

 

Sounds good to me!

Why don't you do a deep cleaning of temps and recheck you HD space useage after that!

Go to folder options and select "Show hidden... ".

Search for *.dmp these can be quite large and created when you have a crash. Memory.dmp and user.dmp. Delete these!

Per chance you have ever gone into hybernation and you do not use this feature check also for hyberfile.sys. If you do not use hybernation delete this file.


Then do this:

Configure CleanMgr to max settings
Go to Start-Run and type

cleanmgr /sageset:1
The above need only be ran once (these settings will be remembered as the default until another sageset is ran).

It will present a menu select all except compress, then

Go to Start-Run and type

cleanmgr /sagerun:1
As long as /sageset above has been ran on this computer from now on the /sagerun is the only thing that needs to run.

Now recheck the used/free space.

Mike