queri opened this issue on Apr 25, 2002 ยท 7 posts
queri posted Thu, 25 April 2002 at 3:56 PM
I'm having to transfer to a laptop, owing to physical difficulties. This was no prob with Poser which can float on any partition or harddrive-- I have a firewire 120G in transit. I just ordered PS 7, I've been working with this program since 2 [?] probably before numbers. Anyway, it never occurred to me if it had to be in programs and on the C drive to work. That's my big and stupid question, does it have to be on C? Can I put it on the second 60G partition on the firewire? There's only 15G on the C partition and XP eats up a lot of room. If it does have to reside on C, can it use a firewire external as scratch? I got a 40 G laptop, it's as big as I could find. Um, Pentium4 1.6Mhz processor [Sony] 512 RAM-- again as much as it would hold. None too happy about that. Emily
retrocity posted Thu, 25 April 2002 at 9:05 PM
No it doesn't have to be on C:/ I have mine on my sceond drive in one partition and use one of my other partitions as the primary scratch disk. You should not have a problem, but than again... there is that "reality" issue ;) scott
queri posted Thu, 25 April 2002 at 10:58 PM
Hey, but it's worth a try. Thank you very much for answering. Why does reality always have to get in the way?? Emily
Slynky posted Sat, 27 April 2002 at 7:49 PM
I never keep any software or design on my primary drive, only windows can use my c drive if i have anything to say about it.
queri posted Sat, 27 April 2002 at 7:54 PM
Do you have them under Program files on the alternate drive/partition? Or just sitting there? I've only done this with Poser-- that you can move anywhere and ZBrush-- ditto. I, too, would like to have everything off the main catastrophe area. And with a new puter and new firedrive, it seems like the best time to do it. Emily
retrocity posted Sat, 27 April 2002 at 9:14 PM
I install all my apps in "Program Files..." but not on my C: This way any trouble with C wont impact my apps. I've yet to have a problem with any of them. s
Alpha posted Sun, 28 April 2002 at 4:42 PM
I used to install all of my apps on there own partition. However, if you have to reformat, or re-install the main OS all the file associations to the apps are lost, so it really didn't make a difference as the apps had to be re-installed anyway. I now keep all apps on the C: drive, and all of my actual work on a external firewire drive. This seems pretty stable, and allows me to run a reletively small main HD, so running things like scandisk, and defrag are quick.