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December 16th, 2006 08:35 PM #11
My suggestion would be to buy an external usb2 hard drive no larger than 2.5". That way, it can be powered through the usb port. If you have a Mac laptop, it has 6-pin firewire ports which would be my preference (most pc laptops only have 4-pin firewire). If you're going to get into video files, an external hard drive is a critical storage option. DVD platters are ok. DVD+/-RW will be even better with Vista. But, they do take an awfully long time to write into. An external hard drive is the most painless way to store large video files.
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December 16th, 2006 09:02 PM #13I don't care what MS says.
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December 16th, 2006 10:07 PM #15
try contig and its freeware power defragmenter gui. both utilities are available as free downloads from softpedia.com. contig is dos based and the gui is frugal to say the least so there's no progress indicator. just run it, keep yourself from hitting the close window button on the dos box and wait for the defrag complete notification. can defrag 60% full 250gig hd in 3/4 the time required for winxp's defrag utility.
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