>>>>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.
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>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.

From my experience, even a USB3 port are significantly slower then on board memory (SDD or Hard). I see this when I preform backups for files. Anyway, I have been think of creating a second (or more) partition(s) on my on board drive (if possible.) I have a 1TB drive but only am using less then 20% of it. No music, videos, or photos, not my thing. I am simply looking for a sandbox where I can test new applications, either mine or others. Any suggestions?