Dual Cor AMD 64

Charles Gillard · Post by **Charles Gillard** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 12:32 pm

Hi can any one help,

I have just purchased a computer with AMD Athlone 64x2 3800+ Dual proccesor, and have just upgraded from a AMD XP 2600.

I`m using video studeo 8, not sure about the two drives displayed in My Computer, do I treat them like two seperate hard drives, and store pics videos ect in one of them and leave the other for proccesing work or is there more to it than that.

C drive allows me to save all right, but when I try to save in D drive it warns me not to,.. some thing about patitions?.

Jim

DVDDoug · Post by **DVDDoug** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 10:00 pm

Is this a Ulead-only problem, or are you saying that you can't save to D at all? Can you drag a file from C to D (with two Windows Explorers open)?

What's the exact error message/warning?

Maybe the D drive isn't formatted..

It's up to you how you want to use the drives. I have Windows and all of my applications on drive C, and I use D for all of my audio/video files. That's very common, and it makes it easy to "clean-up" D by erasing all of the old video files.

CycleWriter · Post by **CycleWriter** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 1:05 am

Compaq and HP computers come with a partition with the factory files that came pre-loaded on your computer. The OS, and any additional software are in there. This lets them ship PCs without any CDs. HP includes a utility that will copy these files to CDs or DVDs for disater recovery and then it will allow you to either keep the partition, resize it or delete it entirely. You only get the opportunity to do any of these tasks once and you'll be advised of it when you first set up your new computer. If you decide to use that partition for data, keep in mind that it is still part of the primary hard drive. There will be no gain in performance for video by using it since the same heads and platters need to be accessed for data and program functions. For video editing, it's best to add another physical hard drive to the system. Also, using a partition on the same disk drive does not insulate your data from the effects of a hard drive failure or a virus. Generally, if something happens to the C: partition, any other partitions on that drive will also be affected.