Partioning Drives + General Space Perfomance

[Cheetah Designs]

Hi there,

I am coming to the end of my 80GB HDD and windows is getting rather slow. Is that because it's coming to nearly filling the whole hard drive, or the fact that its 80GB and if it was on say a 200GB HDD is would be the same?

I'm going to upgrading to a larger HDD and was wondering how i should partition the drive? I have a large percent of my hard drive which is music and backups so i was thinking of sticking them on a seperate partion?

Does partitioning actually help with regards to performance?

Thanks.

 

[Cheetah Designs]

Is it possible to change the default directory where things are installed?

Like instead of C:\Program Files\, make it D:\Program Files, so programs automatically install to there?

That would make things so much easier.

 

[Cheetah Designs]

yeah, it would be a clean install. that would be cool thanks

Ditto I am getting my new 250GB drive soon, so ill wait a bit to see what your guide is like.

Thanks.