>>>Yah, after my last post I kind of figured that was the problem. Unfortunately I only have the one drive on this laptop.
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>>No travelling box with a disk-on-usb inside? I keep one for almost ten years now, and it's permanently on. The USB, being slower, doesn't really drive it too hard (please issue a pardon for the pun, recall the firing squad). I keep my music on it.
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>Thanks for the suggestion.

Now that this made me think of it, perhaps your partition ain't that big - nowadays there are thumbdrives or SD cards with sufficient space to accommodate the file. May be just as fast as a HDD in a box - at the speed of USB.