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MusashiM
10-30-2001, 01:05 PM
I have an 6 gig hard drive and I decided to use it to store my mp3s on. Anyway, to make a long story short, I only have a little over 100 megs free. Will this hurt the hard drive other than performance?
topane
10-30-2001, 01:25 PM
Shouldn't, unless your swapfile is on that drive too.
attgig
10-30-2001, 01:30 PM
why does the swap file on that HD bad for it???

i don't think there's anything bad about using a HD to its capacity....
doesn't make sense that it would
Markel
10-30-2001, 01:32 PM
Originally posted by attgig
why does the swap file on that HD bad for it???

i don't think there's anything bad about using a HD to its capacity....
doesn't make sense that it would
If the swap file tries to extend and it can't, things get ugly very quickly.
TommyBoomfiger
10-30-2001, 02:35 PM
its not bad for the hard drive, nothing will happen to it, its just not good for system stability. you will just get memory errors if the pagefile is expanded.
MusashiM
10-30-2001, 06:42 PM
Okay, thanks guys... I don't think that it should cause any problems then...