Dual drive question

[newfiemountiewife]

I have two hard drives on my laptop, both are 250 GB each. Currently, all my scrap stuff is on my C: drive, but I'm wondering, would it be better to move it to my D: drive? My thinking is that the computer uses the C: drive to operate, and it might go faster if I moved my 125 GB of stuff (ack) to the D: drive to make it run faster.

Anyone do anything like this? And did it work? My laptop is sluggish, but it has 4GB of RAM, so that's not the issue! I think it just has too much stuff on it.

TIA!

[jannylynn]

I have a desktop but it all works the same. I don't keep scrap stuff on my C: drive. I try to keep it as empty as possible for swap. So moving to your D: drive will help. Don't forget to defrag afterwards.

[newfiemountiewife]

Thanks Janny for your advice! I really need to purge, but I don't have time or energy to do it, so I think this is a good alternative!

[Darcy Baldwin]

Jamie - that's how we have our desktops set up. Well, we don't have dual drives, but partitions within our mongo drives, so it's sort of the same thing.

I would also suggest you regularly run for adware, malware, and whateverotherkindofware programs you might have. Many times spyware causes massive slowdowns in your machine.

Defrag regularly!

[newfiemountiewife]

Thanks Darcy...I do have the paid AVG that runs every morning, and Microsoft Anti-Spyware, and they seem ok for now. I have pictures on this drive besides my scrap stuff too, it's just SO full, especially after yesterday LOL

[Susan Bartolini]

I agree with everyone....I would move your files to your other drive....and also make sure you have a nice scratch disk allottment for PS so that it can run faster.

Susan

[newfiemountiewife]

Thanks Susan, I hadn't thought of that!

[juliemarie]

I have dual drives too, I keep my scrap files on the non-windows drive. Make sure you run a disk defrag after you move your files. Auslogics (http://www.auslogics.com/disk-defrag) has a great free program.

[ditzyscrap]

I've got 2 drives as well, and I keep just programs on my C:/ drive and everything else (well, not EVERYTHING...photos and digi kits, etc) on my secondary drive. I do save some stuff on the main drive, and transfer it over once a month or so. And back up to an EHD.

[newfiemountiewife]

I moved it all to the D drive, and what a difference! Holy crap! LOL! Everything is backed up to my EHD, so that's not an issue, thankfully!

I will run the defrag now, when I go to bed. I'm so glad I did this!

[Paula]

I don't keep any scrap stuff on my main drive. We just got Time Capsule and I moved all my stuff over there as well as onto my EHD.

[Sharon Kay]

I hope you weren't moving large amounts of data at one time!! the tech guys that recovered my data after 2 ehd crashed ($700 for one drive) said don't move more than a CD's worth at one time!! Be sure you do scan disk and defrag on both drives!!