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 Posted: Mon Sep 17th, 2012 05:58
Hawkeye



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 'A large, fast, dedicated HD for a scratch disk is a good idea, NOT the HD with the OS on it or that might even slow things down. Say a WD Black 250Gb would make a good scratch drive. If you plan to use an external it needs to be Firewire or eSATA. With a PC it's so easy to slip another internal drive in connected to the SATA bus. If you use USB for a scratch drive that could make things worse, it's so slow.'

Thanks for the info Robert - I hear what you are saying ref the Settings - I've been mucking about with them a bit and I'd like to put them back to defaults but cannot see any obvious way to do this except uninstall and reinstall PS - ?

I do have a new 'My Book Essential WDBAAF0020HBK - Hard drive - 2 TB - external - Hi-Speed USB' - could this be suitable to allocate to Scratch?

'I suspect something in your hardware or OS isn't 100% 64bit clean'

I've recently (last week) unistalled Win7 64-bit and installed 32-bit (had it done professionally!) So perhaps you are right, but not much I can do about this.

　

　

Last edited on Mon Sep 17th, 2012 05:59 by Hawkeye



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