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swap file question


rstryker

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i have a few old Maxtor 3.2 gig hard drives lying around and i was thinking of using one as a swap file. would this make sense? would it help? waste of time?

Athlon 1200

768 PC133

Maxtor 60GB win 98SE

Maxtor 80GB winXP

Maxtor 160GB Storage

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Yes, it would help keeping the pagefile on a seperate local hard drive, but do you have a spare IDE Channel slot on your mobo/disk controller to support your 3.2GB Maxtor?

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yes... these 3 drives are on a onboard promise 100 controller...i will probably put the 3.2 on it as well.

my 2 CD-RW, and DVD-Rom are on the motherboards standard controller.

should i have seperate swap files for winXP and win 98?

i could put 2 3.2 drives in, which would take up all my ide channels, or split the 3.2 into 2 partitions.

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