@ Mikec:
Don't mention it.
@ Powerclown:
my curses towards Mac
click to show God do I fuckin hate Macs.
Now that that is out of the way. I've been giving some thoughts to what you mentioned. This resource busy nonsense: try closing other programs. While in Windows I have noticed that my idle system processes would jump from ~5% to ~35%, with little to no noticeable consequences with my other programs running, and I used to do a lot of video editing to and from an encrypted partition.... What you aren't that paranoid? Anyway, instead of creating a full partition, what happened if you just created a file that took up the full space of the partition? Is this within you means?