Author Topic: need advice (Read 1790 times)

[GIT]Fairy · « **Reply #15 on:** March 17, 2005, 06:38:11 PM »

Hmmm that doesnt sound right Steven. Might be an idea just to dump anything that isnt really personal and start again. I formatted my hard drive into a c and d partition. All of my downloads, music, patches are on D. Win XP is on C so I can reformat it and reinstall anytime I want and still keep all my data.

Fairy

Cpt.Cakk · « **Reply #16 on:** March 17, 2005, 06:54:12 PM »

Same, except I've got 4 partitions of 30GB.

C, D, E, F..

C is windows

D is games

E and F are shit like documents, music, videos, etc.

[TiG]Devil_Monkey · « **Reply #17 on:** March 17, 2005, 07:07:10 PM »

Aye, partitions are the way forward if you have a big-ish drive.
The only thing you ever really want to format is your utilities and programs but most of all Windows itself.

C:\ Windows & stuff
D:\ Downloads (patches, drivers and installers)
F:\ Freespace
G:\ Games
M:\ Media (vids & mp3s)
P:\ Pagefile (to keep it from fragmenting)

When the machine goes tits up, I format C:
When it comes to defraggmenting, I clean C: and G:, the rest can stay crappy until I'm bored.

If you're formatting, the important Nam folders are your settings&profiles and pb folders(just in case).
Redoing your profile to how you liked it sucks teh cock.

[GIT]Fairy · « **Reply #18 on:** March 17, 2005, 07:14:37 PM »

On that point dev I have a ctd error that happens occasionally. When I go back into the game I will have lost either my inf settings or vehicle settings, or both. I never loose my air or common settings.

Its a bitch having to go in and reset these. I used to be able to write batch files eons ago but cant remember how to do it. Would anyone be able to fire up a simple batch file that would copy player.con etc files from a safe location into the game folder on the c drive.

Fairy.

PS I could do this if I tried but there is always someone who can do it faster.

Kayos · « **Reply #19 on:** March 18, 2005, 03:56:50 AM »

Quote from: [TiG]Devil_Monkey

P:\ Pagefile (to keep it from fragmenting)

Please say your p driveis one of the first you created i.e on the inside of the platter...

I run 3x 20GB Win32/Wind64/Images and 1 x 240GB Downloads etc

[TiG]Devil_Monkey · « **Reply #20 on:** March 18, 2005, 07:08:09 PM »

I put it on the raptor altogether.
G: and P: are on a Raptor74.
The rest are Seagate 160GB.
I just hate having the page file muddled into the windows partition.

Author Topic: need advice (Read 1790 times)

Cpt.Cakk

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Kayos

[TiG]Devil_Monkey