Configuring Your Vaio® Computer; Hard Drive Partition; Defragmenting Your Hard Disk Drive; I.link® (Ieee1394) Compatibility - Sony VAIO User Manual

Configuring your VAIO® Computer

Hard Drive Partition

In order to improve the performance of the DVgate software, the hard disk drive
on your computer has been formatted with two partitions, C and D. The DVgate
software saves files to the D partition. This prevents large video captures from
consuming the available space on your C partition. To maintain optimum DVgate
performance, you should defragment your D partition regularly.

Defragmenting your Hard Disk Drive

If you encounter frame dropping while recording digital video onto your hard
disk drive, defragmentation may be necessary.
To defragment your hard disk drive
1 Deactivate your screen saver, if applicable.
2 From the Start menu, select Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Disk
Defragmenter.
3 Run Disk Defragmenter.
It may take more than a couple of hours to complete defragmentation, depending on
the data capacity and utilization of your computer's hard disk drive(s).
i.LINK® (IEEE1394) Compatibility
Your VAIO computer includes two 6-pin i.LINK connectors on the back panel of
the system. A 6-pin i.LINK connector:
can supply power from the computer to the connected device if the device is
equipped with a 6-pin connector, and
supplies 10V to 12V.
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