[Richie]

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But on the other hand, that would take a lot of time, and I could be playing what-if's like that forever, seems more efficient to figure out what happened.


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Unfortunately, that is how you would figure it out [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] It does take alot of time to troubleshoot. You may also try to take out the IDE card and put the two HDDs on the same controller card. You are correct, the swap file should be on another physical HDD. Even if it's not on another controller, it helps because the read/write heads are doing separate tasks on each HDD. Where it is really benificial is if you would put the windows and photoshop swap file on a faster HDD than the system is installed on. I would still consider increasing your RAM though. Another half gig of RAM and two more HDDs are on my list of upgrades. When I started using my Nkon 4000ED, I realized that it doesn't take a long time to fill up a 30GB drive [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

-Richie