Separate Hard Drive

[lucky666]

I have recently upgraded to Windows XP and have partitioned my hard drive so that I have a separate area for my video clips. Is it best to have the software (Premiere 6.5) on this separate partition or not.
Also would it again be better to have a separate (slave) hard drive for video clips/ premiere
Thanks for any help

 

[LRSmith]

It's really up to your preference, IMHO. I've done it both ways. At one time I isolated the OS to its own partition, program files to another, and video files to a third. That way if I ever had to reformat and reinstall the OS I didn't have to back up all the data files from the programs. I had video files on a separate harddrive as they can be quite a chore to keep organized. Even doing this, you'd have to reinstall all programs (but not data files) if you reinstalled your OS from scratch.

Presently I don't do that, I have the OS and program files (with associated data) all on one partition, but I still keep video files on a separate partition. Things work fine that way too.

 

[lucky666]

\Thanks for your experiences, at the moment my video only is on its own partition seems to work OK - I just wondered if the other way was better. Thanks again, Irsmith