Yes you can do it, no it won't speed up your computer in the least. Without
knowing the specs of your computer no additional advise can be offered
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"Nancyb1962" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Hello,
> I am trying to find out if this would help or harm, and, if it would
> help, how to do it. I am wondering if it is possible that I could create
> a new partition on my Vista home basic just for storage for pictures and
> document files mainly. If I could do this, would it help the speed of
> the computer? If so, how would I go about doing this? And, once stored
> in the new partition, would I be able to open them as normal? I already
> use flash drives, etc for storage, but have run out of room on both of
> those, and just cant afford to buy more right now. I need to speed up
> this pc, and I know the vast number of pictures and documents and scans
> I have on here are probably the main culprit for slowing it down. (I do
> genealogy, and ebay- and have huge number of pictures relating to both,
> as well as text documents, .rtf files, .pdf files, .doc, etc).
> Advice and/or directions would be much appreciated.
> Thank you.
> Nancy
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