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Hi,
I have a PC at home with a 60Gb Seagate drive (5400 rpm) master (C: &
D and a slave 160Gb samsung (7200 rpm) (G:,H:,I
At present I have Norton 2003 installed under C: in the default
location.
I have tried to install most newer applications on the faster newer
disk, which is also quieter.
I ran filemon.exe and noticed that Norton or Symantec identified
processes seem to make a large number of file access operations, witha
full path on C:.
I wondered if relocating (reinstalling) Norton onto the faster disk
would be worthwhile ? I don't see why not as the install supports
installing to any custome drive of folder.
I would also hopefully get a better interleaving of disk i/o across the
two disks.
My concern was what if something went wrong with the 160Gb disk on
which Norton resides ? If a PC boots that has Norton AV installed BUT
cannot find any of the Norton Binaries because the drive is missing
what happens ?
Normally this doesn't matter if using C: as if that fails you're
screwed anyway, but if locating Norton on G: and that disk fails , will
XP boot to a usable state ?
many thanks
Hi,
I have a PC at home with a 60Gb Seagate drive (5400 rpm) master (C: &
D and a slave 160Gb samsung (7200 rpm) (G:,H:,I
At present I have Norton 2003 installed under C: in the default
location.
I have tried to install most newer applications on the faster newer
disk, which is also quieter.
I ran filemon.exe and noticed that Norton or Symantec identified
processes seem to make a large number of file access operations, witha
full path on C:.
I wondered if relocating (reinstalling) Norton onto the faster disk
would be worthwhile ? I don't see why not as the install supports
installing to any custome drive of folder.
I would also hopefully get a better interleaving of disk i/o across the
two disks.
My concern was what if something went wrong with the 160Gb disk on
which Norton resides ? If a PC boots that has Norton AV installed BUT
cannot find any of the Norton Binaries because the drive is missing
what happens ?
Normally this doesn't matter if using C: as if that fails you're
screwed anyway, but if locating Norton on G: and that disk fails , will
XP boot to a usable state ?
many thanks