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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.
　
　
That disk should be OK as a scratch disk. Fastest possible connection is good so an internal secondary disk connected to SATA channel is better than external USB connected one.
Now you are back on Win7 32bit there may be some compromises with add-in software from people like OnOne and NikSoftware.
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