ionfusion Posted January 18, 2002 Share Posted January 18, 2002 If you are planning on doing this setup on one Physical drive you are loosing speed and certain efficiency. If doing this on mutliple Harddrives, then yes this is the better way to go. I can only see putting the dump on a different partition as a good choice IMO. Why? To put your Pagefile on the farthest partition than your OS would be a loss. Imagine you have one house, with 4 rooms lined up in a row with a hallway (C:,D:,E:, F). The first room © holds your OS, when your computer decides to page your OS files to the pagefile, you will have to run to the last room(F) and drop the information off, then run back to the first room©, pick up some more info and run back to the forth room (F) and so on. Same goes for the room that will hold your installed programs(D). The Dump partition would be a good idea as long as it is not in constant use. Sure your method will make it easier to avoid excessive fragmentation and keep things organized, but the hard drive will have to move its heads back and forth more often which makes things slower. These methods are good, but more for mutliple hard drives. However, you shouldn't see that much of a slow down to ward you off from trying the setup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eth3l Posted January 18, 2002 Share Posted January 18, 2002 here's mine C: WinXPB] D: Application (also contains special folders, i.e. My Documents, My pics, etc.) E: GamesB] (duh) F: Archives ( contains I386, downloaded files, CD Images, temp files, swap file) G: Music 20 gigs of audio data! woo hoo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xcalibur Posted January 21, 2002 Share Posted January 21, 2002 my hard drive is setup like this: C: (45GB) - Everything :D Total: 45GB I figure that there is no point in dividing up a partition, as i burn all my stuff that i haven't looked at in a month to CDs and keep them for safekeeping then delete them off the hard drive. When it comes time for me to reinstall windows (which ends up being like every three months), i like to start with a clean start, i fdisk my hard drive again, then format, just like a new hard drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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