BillR... Thanks for the info.
Some of my scratch disk files get several gigs in size. I'm working on large, hirez images, so with a fragmented main drive, the speed is slowed even more if the scratch is using the same drive.
I may try the reformat, though its not something I've ever...
I'm an illustrator. I getting a Dell 9300 laptop (2 gig RAM, 100 gig HD) My main program is Photoshop which uses a "scratch" disk when RAM is used up... which happens frequently. The laptop is coming with one partition on the drive, I want to create a second small partition (a few gigs) just...