Partitioning an 80GB hard drive

[John Barnett - MVP]

Sorry to enter the fray here, but whoever Nicholas
happens to be i would suggest that he/she gets a good
libel lawyer!
My advice is to keep these sort of libellous rambling off
newsgroups. I take it, Joe User, that you can legally
substantiate all the claims you are making regarding
Nicholas. If not, you are in big trouble my friend!

John Barnett - MVP
Associate Expert
>-----Original Message-----
>In general, programs like this are simply asking to have
as many resources
>available as possible. In this case they want you to
separate your program
>partition from your scratch space. To satisfy Photoshop,
separate partitions
>on the same physical drive is enough to fool the program
into thinking
>everything is setup correctly. Of course this is the
kind of solution that a
>****ing dickless idiot like "Nicholas" would dream up.
With a comment like:
>
>"Virtually all your response is nonsense. How did you
dream this up?
>
>--
>Nicholas"
>
>With a pansy faggot assed lame comment like that, you
might as well go at
>your system with a hammer. Taking the advice of a
****head like "Nicholas"
>will get you nothing. Simply because she doesn't know
her piehole from her
>respective ass, does not suggest that she is capable of
a cogent comment.
>So, in short, to get nothing accomplished,
follow "Nicholas"'s ignorant
>suggestion and partition away.
>
>This, of course, will not help anything since having
multiple partitions on
>the same physical drive only degrades speed by causing
the drive's heads to
>thrash about trying to do the work of two drives in one
physical drive. Any
>idiot can tell you that two drives are better than one,
except for morons
>like "Nicholas" who would try to convince you that you
can get something for
>nothing by using some lame piece of partitioning
software. The fact of the
>matter is that with multiple drives you have more drive
heads to deal with
>the operations of the software. The more heads, the
faster the program is
>able to do the things it needs to do.
>
>In an ideal world, programs like this would use RAM for
it's machinations
>but many systems do not have the amounts of free memory
available for such
>operations.
>
>-------------------------------------------------------
>>hi, unless you have a partition management suite(norton
>and suchlikes)your hard drive exists as a whole.
>to create an additional partition would require you to
>delete the existing and recreate a primary using the
>amount required and then creating a secondary utilising
>the rest.
>summary.!! you will lose all the information currently
>installed (windows and programmes.... the lot)
>i'm not sure why photoshop is recommending you store a
>scratchdisk on a seperate partition!
>my advice is to forget it ever mentioned it ok.
>
>
>.
>

[Joe User]

Regarding Photoshop and scratch disks, the fine people of Aztec IT Training
have a reasonable page on this topic.

http://www.aztectraining.com/hints_tips/pshop_hints_mem.htm

This is one of many sources that basically say the same thing, Allocate
your largest, emptiest, fastest hard drive as the "primary" scratch disk.

Regarding Nicholas, I cannot prove that she is "dickless" however the fact
that she is a "****ing idiot" is fairly evident.

Regards.

"John Barnett - MVP" > wrote in message
...
> Sorry to enter the fray here, but whoever Nicholas
> happens to be i would suggest that he/she gets a good
> libel lawyer!
> My advice is to keep these sort of libellous rambling off
> newsgroups. I take it, Joe User, that you can legally
> substantiate all the claims you are making regarding
> Nicholas. If not, you are in big trouble my friend!
>
> John Barnett - MVP
> Associate Expert
> >-----Original Message-----
> >In general, programs like this are simply asking to have
> as many resources
> >available as possible. In this case they want you to
> separate your program
> >partition from your scratch space. To satisfy Photoshop,
> separate partitions
> >on the same physical drive is enough to fool the program
> into thinking
> >everything is setup correctly. Of course this is the
> kind of solution that a
> >****ing dickless idiot like "Nicholas" would dream up.
> With a comment like:
> >
> >"Virtually all your response is nonsense. How did you
> dream this up?
> >
> >--
> >Nicholas"
> >
> >With a pansy faggot assed lame comment like that, you
> might as well go at
> >your system with a hammer. Taking the advice of a
> ****head like "Nicholas"
> >will get you nothing. Simply because she doesn't know
> her piehole from her
> >respective ass, does not suggest that she is capable of
> a cogent comment.
> >So, in short, to get nothing accomplished,
> follow "Nicholas"'s ignorant
> >suggestion and partition away.
> >
> >This, of course, will not help anything since having
> multiple partitions on
> >the same physical drive only degrades speed by causing
> the drive's heads to
> >thrash about trying to do the work of two drives in one
> physical drive. Any
> >idiot can tell you that two drives are better than one,
> except for morons
> >like "Nicholas" who would try to convince you that you
> can get something for
> >nothing by using some lame piece of partitioning
> software. The fact of the
> >matter is that with multiple drives you have more drive
> heads to deal with
> >the operations of the software. The more heads, the
> faster the program is
> >able to do the things it needs to do.
> >
> >In an ideal world, programs like this would use RAM for
> it's machinations
> >but many systems do not have the amounts of free memory
> available for such
> >operations.
> >
> >-------------------------------------------------------
> >>hi, unless you have a partition management suite(norton
> >and suchlikes)your hard drive exists as a whole.
> >to create an additional partition would require you to
> >delete the existing and recreate a primary using the
> >amount required and then creating a secondary utilising
> >the rest.
> >summary.!! you will lose all the information currently
> >installed (windows and programmes.... the lot)
> >i'm not sure why photoshop is recommending you store a
> >scratchdisk on a seperate partition!
> >my advice is to forget it ever mentioned it ok.
> >
> >
> >.
> >