So after reading everybody's (extremely helpful!) responses, I am guessing
that if I take my TMP (Tanya Mayer Photography) folder that contains pretty
much all of my data, pix etc and is currently around 12gb in size, and just
dump it on the D: it would be ok?
What worries me is that such a huge drive is getting full already, and you've only put 12Gb of data onto it. I can think of two possible causes: Photoshop isn't cleaning up its temporary files, or perhaps your recycle bin has been set to reserve way too much space.
Checking the recycle bin is easy enough but I have no idea where Photoshop keeps its temp files on Windows.
I am still concerned due to the title of the D: being "restore", it really
makes me wonder if I should be using it...
You can rename it if it worries you :)
Also, as raised by Nick (and suggested by Robert), I have wondered about
setting my scratch disk for PS to D: - should I do this, or wouldn't it have
any effect due to the fact that it is only a drive partition and not a
separate physical drive?
Since its a partition on the same physical drive, you won't see any speed gains.
It is currently set to use "StartUp" as the first
scratch disk, and D: as the second. Can anyone tell me why there are
choices for up to four separate scratch disks and how should I be setting
them up in order of preference...
I guess that there are four options so that Photoshop can use another drive when the first one starts running short of space.
I would suggest that you use whichever drive has the most free space as your primary scratch drive, then the other one as secondary. You only have two drives so don't worry about specifying any more.
As an aside, at least Windows XP stops you from accidentally deleting the wrong things. My half-brother once managed to completely hose Dad's PC (Windows 95) when he deleted the "Windows" directory to free up space.
So I'll echo someone else's suggestion to rename your TMP folder. And keep backups :)
Cheers,
- Dave
http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/
