Sony PCV-RX640 Computer User Guide (primary manual) - Page 59

Configuring Your VAIO Computer

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Configuring Your VAIO Computer This section provides information about maintaining your computer's hard disk drive performance and connecting a compatible i.LINK® device. Hard Disk Drive Partition To maintain optimum system performance, you should defragment your computer's D partition regularly. To improve the performance of Sony audio and video software applications, the hard disk drive on your computer has been formatted with two partitions, C and D. Some Sony software applications save files to the D partition. This prevents large video captures from consuming the available space on your C partition. Defragmenting your hard disk drive If you encounter frame dropping while recording digital video onto your hard disk drive, defragmentation may be necessary. 1 Deactivate your screen saver and close other open applications, if applicable. 2 Click Start in the Windows taskbar and select All Programs. 3 Point to Accessories, point to System Tools, and then select Disk Defragmenter. The Disk Defragment dialog box appears. 4 Select Action from the menu bar and click Analyze. ✍ It may take more than a couple of hours to complete defragmentation, depending on the data capacity and current utilization of your computer's hard disk drive(s). 61

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Configuring Your VAIO Computer
This section provides information about maintaining your computer’s
hard disk drive performance and connecting a compatible i.LINK®
device.
Hard Disk Drive Partition
To maintain optimum system performance, you should defragment your
computer’s D partition regularly.
To improve the performance of Sony audio and video software applications, the
hard disk drive on your computer has been formatted with two partitions, C and
D. Some Sony software applications save files to the D partition. This prevents
large video captures from consuming the available space on your C partition.
Defragmenting your hard disk drive
If you encounter frame dropping while recording digital video onto your hard
disk drive, defragmentation may be necessary.
1
Deactivate your screen saver and close other open applications, if applicable.
2
Click Start in the Windows taskbar and select All Programs.
3
Point to Accessories, point to System Tools, and then select Disk
Defragmenter.
The Disk Defragment dialog box appears.
4
Select Action from the menu bar and click Analyze.
It may take more than a couple of hours to complete defragmentation, depending on
the data capacity and current utilization of your computer
s hard disk drive(s).