notebook errors

[Guest John]

I have a laptop user who complains about "many errors". They don't seem to

be one common specific error, but more random. Its an XP pro machine, with

office 2007S/B. Many of his complaints seem to center around office errors,

but could be due to adobe acrobat 8 std. It seems Adobe is involved in the

errors. The user has an 80Gb hd and keeps around 30Gb of stuff in my docs.

Also he has a 8.5 Gb outlook pst file. I have run the pst scan on the pst a

couple times and it usually finds errors... This created backups of the pst

so space was becoming tight. He doesn't seem willing to cut back on any of

the 8.5Gb. But I have gotten the impression when they are that large they

can be a source of errors...

 

I intend to bump him to a little faster machine with a larger drive, so my

questions are:

 

1) Is the lartgest drive i can get the best or what?

2) would it help to partition this drive to separate these old docs?

3) Is the 8Gb pst a real problem, and if so, any suggestions to fix it?

4) any known issues with adobe that i should know about? If so what is the

better answer. He mainly creates everything in office and then converts to

pdf to send it out.....

 

Thanks fo any help

[Guest Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Re: notebook errors

 

See below.

 

"John" <jadams@nospam.nospam> wrote in message

news:A2F499E6-A2DA-4D7E-A101-3644FE8C6B89@microsoft.com...

>I have a laptop user who complains about "many errors". They don't seem to

>be one common specific error, but more random. Its an XP pro machine, with

>office 2007S/B. Many of his complaints seem to center around office

>errors, but could be due to adobe acrobat 8 std. It seems Adobe is

>involved in the errors. The user has an 80Gb hd and keeps around 30Gb of

>stuff in my docs. Also he has a 8.5 Gb outlook pst file. I have run the

>pst scan on the pst a couple times and it usually finds errors... This

>created backups of the pst so space was becoming tight. He doesn't seem

>willing to cut back on any of the 8.5Gb. But I have gotten the impression

>when they are that large they can be a source of errors...

>

> I intend to bump him to a little faster machine with a larger drive, so my

> questions are:

>

> 1) Is the lartgest drive i can get the best or what?

*** Sorry, can't understand - please rephrase.

> 2) would it help to partition this drive to separate these old docs?

*** Excellent idea. Make the primary partition 20 GBytes and put

*** all his data on drive D:. When finished with the installation,

*** create an image of drive C: (e.g. with Acronis TrueImage) and

*** put it on drive D: too.

> 3) Is the 8Gb pst a real problem, and if so, any suggestions to fix it?

*** Best asked in an Outlook newsgroup.

> 4) any known issues with adobe that i should know about? If so what is

> the better answer. He mainly creates everything in office and then

> converts to pdf to send it out.....

*** Adobe is very unlikely to cause any problems. I suspect

*** other applications, malware or viruses.

>

> Thanks fo any help

[Guest John]

Re: notebook errors

 

>> 1) Is the lartgest drive i can get the best or what?

> *** Sorry, can't understand - please rephrase.

all i mean is, on the new laptop, do i just buy the bigest fastes hard

drive, to give him plenty of space. Or does performance go down with large

drives?

>> 2) would it help to partition this drive to separate these old docs?

> *** Excellent idea. Make the primary partition 20 GBytes and put

> *** all his data on drive D:. When finished with the installation,

> *** create an image of drive C: (e.g. with Acronis TrueImage) and

> *** put it on drive D: too.

 

So, since this is an excellent idea, can you say why? Will it make

performance better having 2 partitions or not really any change that way?

 

 

 

 

"Pegasus (MVP)" <I.can@fly.com.oz> wrote in message

news:OsmmST4qIHA.672@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...

> See below.

>

> "John" <jadams@nospam.nospam> wrote in message

> news:A2F499E6-A2DA-4D7E-A101-3644FE8C6B89@microsoft.com...

>>I have a laptop user who complains about "many errors". They don't seem

>>to be one common specific error, but more random. Its an XP pro machine,

>>with office 2007S/B. Many of his complaints seem to center around office

>>errors, but could be due to adobe acrobat 8 std. It seems Adobe is

>>involved in the errors. The user has an 80Gb hd and keeps around 30Gb of

>>stuff in my docs. Also he has a 8.5 Gb outlook pst file. I have run the

>>pst scan on the pst a couple times and it usually finds errors... This

>>created backups of the pst so space was becoming tight. He doesn't seem

>>willing to cut back on any of the 8.5Gb. But I have gotten the impression

>>when they are that large they can be a source of errors...

>>

>> I intend to bump him to a little faster machine with a larger drive, so

>> my questions are:

>>

>> 1) Is the lartgest drive i can get the best or what?

> *** Sorry, can't understand - please rephrase.

>

>> 2) would it help to partition this drive to separate these old docs?

> *** Excellent idea. Make the primary partition 20 GBytes and put

> *** all his data on drive D:. When finished with the installation,

> *** create an image of drive C: (e.g. with Acronis TrueImage) and

> *** put it on drive D: too.

>

>> 3) Is the 8Gb pst a real problem, and if so, any suggestions to fix it?

> *** Best asked in an Outlook newsgroup.

>> 4) any known issues with adobe that i should know about? If so what is

>> the better answer. He mainly creates everything in office and then

>> converts to pdf to send it out.....

> *** Adobe is very unlikely to cause any problems. I suspect

> *** other applications, malware or viruses.

>>

>> Thanks fo any help

>

>

[Guest Big Al]

Re: notebook errors

 

John wrote:

> 3) Is the 8Gb pst a real problem, and if so, any suggestions to fix it?

 

No. My office PC has my 15 years of email history. I do archive the

boxes once a year to clean house. The whole folder has something like

80 gigs of PST or backup files and some are 10's of Gigs.

[Guest HeyBub]

Re: notebook errors

 

John wrote:

>>> 1) Is the lartgest drive i can get the best or what?

>> *** Sorry, can't understand - please rephrase.

> all i mean is, on the new laptop, do i just buy the bigest fastes hard

> drive, to give him plenty of space. Or does performance go down with

> large drives?

>

 

You can expect improved performance with a larger drive.

 

1. It'll probably have a (much) faster access time.

2. It will fragment less often.

3. It will probably have a larger, faster cache than the original.

[Guest Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Re: notebook errors

 

 

"John" <jadams@nospam.nospam> wrote in message

news:0367ABAB-437C-43E8-80C2-057B4DD02841@microsoft.com...

>>> 1) Is the lartgest drive i can get the best or what?

>> *** Sorry, can't understand - please rephrase.

> all i mean is, on the new laptop, do i just buy the bigest fastes hard

> drive, to give him plenty of space. Or does performance go down with

> large drives?

 

Performance improves a little with larger disks. Due to the larger

capacity, information is packed more tightly, which reduces head

travel time.

>

>>> 2) would it help to partition this drive to separate these old docs?

>> *** Excellent idea. Make the primary partition 20 GBytes and put

>> *** all his data on drive D:. When finished with the installation,

>> *** create an image of drive C: (e.g. with Acronis TrueImage) and

>> *** put it on drive D: too.

>

> So, since this is an excellent idea, can you say why? Will it make

> performance better having 2 partitions or not really any change that way?

 

Splitting a disk has no effect on performance but it makes

data management much easier. It also allows you to create

images of your system partition and store them on your

data partition.

> "Pegasus (MVP)" <I.can@fly.com.oz> wrote in message

> news:OsmmST4qIHA.672@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...

>> See below.

>>

>> "John" <jadams@nospam.nospam> wrote in message

>> news:A2F499E6-A2DA-4D7E-A101-3644FE8C6B89@microsoft.com...

>>>I have a laptop user who complains about "many errors". They don't seem

>>>to be one common specific error, but more random. Its an XP pro machine,

>>>with office 2007S/B. Many of his complaints seem to center around office

>>>errors, but could be due to adobe acrobat 8 std. It seems Adobe is

>>>involved in the errors. The user has an 80Gb hd and keeps around 30Gb of

>>>stuff in my docs. Also he has a 8.5 Gb outlook pst file. I have run the

>>>pst scan on the pst a couple times and it usually finds errors... This

>>>created backups of the pst so space was becoming tight. He doesn't seem

>>>willing to cut back on any of the 8.5Gb. But I have gotten the

>>>impression when they are that large they can be a source of errors...

>>>

>>> I intend to bump him to a little faster machine with a larger drive, so

>>> my questions are:

>>>

>>> 1) Is the lartgest drive i can get the best or what?

>> *** Sorry, can't understand - please rephrase.

>>

>>> 2) would it help to partition this drive to separate these old docs?

>> *** Excellent idea. Make the primary partition 20 GBytes and put

>> *** all his data on drive D:. When finished with the installation,

>> *** create an image of drive C: (e.g. with Acronis TrueImage) and

>> *** put it on drive D: too.

>>

>>> 3) Is the 8Gb pst a real problem, and if so, any suggestions to fix it?

>> *** Best asked in an Outlook newsgroup.

>>> 4) any known issues with adobe that i should know about? If so what is

>>> the better answer. He mainly creates everything in office and then

>>> converts to pdf to send it out.....

>> *** Adobe is very unlikely to cause any problems. I suspect

>> *** other applications, malware or viruses.

>>>

>>> Thanks fo any help

>>

>>

>

[Guest George Yin]

RE: notebook errors

 

Hello,

 

Thank you for your post and as well as to others for sharing these

information.

 

Pegasus is right, changing the old disk with a faster and newer disk can

usually improve the performance. Large drives usually don't lower the

performance.

 

Splitting the whole disk can usually improve the management. And by

defragmenting the frequent-writing drives, the performance can be improved.

 

Besides, here is an article which may help improve your PC a little:

 

5 ways to speed up your PC:

http://www.microsoft.com/AtWork/getstarted/speed.mspx

 

Regarding the .pst file and Adobe questions, I would like to suggest that

you post into our office newsgroup and contact Abode, see if they have any

better idea on this.

 

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/newsgroups/desktoppt/office.mspx

 

Sincerely,

George Yin

Microsoft Online Support

Microsoft Global Technical Support Center

 

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[Guest George Yin]

RE: notebook errors

 

Hello,

 

How's everything going?

 

I'm wondering if the suggestion has helped or if you have any further

questions. Please feel free to respond to the newsgroups if I can assist

further.

 

Sincerely,

George Yin

Microsoft Online Support

Microsoft Global Technical Support Center

 

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