hi guys ,ive got a question for you ,my friend at work has had his computer reformatted and has had windows xp put on, now the guy who has done it for him is a i.t guy, and my friend has tryed to explain that hes partitioned the hard drive in to 2 and put windows back on ,the i.t guy told him that the computer would run twice as quick as it did before because hes partitioned it ,the i.t guy -hes says its like having twice the power ,does anybody understand this ? and if you do could you explain this as i would like to know ! and if this is right how do you do it ? and will it work with vista the same?
will partitioning the harddrive in to two make windows xp run quicker ?
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He's talking rubbish and should be fired. Having seperate partitions is in fact slower, in copying data from partition to partition.
Although having a partition for Windows only means under constant re-writing of the structure Windows doesn't become fragmented with other files ie games. And if it does come fragmented, defragmenting will be fast, as you'll just have OS and program files on it.
Although having a partition for Windows only means under constant re-writing of the structure Windows doesn't become fragmented with other files ie games. And if it does come fragmented, defragmenting will be fast, as you'll just have OS and program files on it.
Having two is faster. OS and program files on one. If the computer needs to access windows files and files on a game at the same time, in a single HD system it'll mean the head will have to move back and forth.
With a dual HD setup, each HD will access the files it needs, indepedant of the other one.
Also if you mess around with Windows and kill it, you won't lose anything. If you save documents and settings to another drive, emails,backup files, movies etc you can just wipe the OS drive without any hassle. On a single HD setup, single partition if the OS kills itself you'll have to unplug that HD and fit into another machine, retreive files, then fit back and wipe.
I have OS installed onto a 80GB drive, with 320GB and 250GB drives as games and mass storage. Although I'm planning on replacing the 80GB as it's a older model drive, with lower performance compared to new drives.
With a dual HD setup, each HD will access the files it needs, indepedant of the other one.
Also if you mess around with Windows and kill it, you won't lose anything. If you save documents and settings to another drive, emails,backup files, movies etc you can just wipe the OS drive without any hassle. On a single HD setup, single partition if the OS kills itself you'll have to unplug that HD and fit into another machine, retreive files, then fit back and wipe.
I have OS installed onto a 80GB drive, with 320GB and 250GB drives as games and mass storage. Although I'm planning on replacing the 80GB as it's a older model drive, with lower performance compared to new drives.
kvnwds43 said:
Backing up onto the same hard-drive is fairly pointless - if the hard-drive fails you lose your data twice.
Having your HDD partitioned is still a good idea, because as said already, it keeps your Windows installation a bit cleaner and makes it easier to defragment. There's no immediate performance benefit with this though, because it's still just one hard-drive.
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I think this guy is an i.d.i.o.t rather than i.t.
I always partiton my drives so I can store downloaded files etc on a second partition so if I need to reinstall windows I can copy what I don't want to lose off the c: drive. I also keep a norton ghost image on the second partiton and I can put a clean install of windows across to the c: drive in minutes.
Having said that any programs I install all go on the c: drive I don't bother with games on d: etc.
I always partiton my drives so I can store downloaded files etc on a second partition so if I need to reinstall windows I can copy what I don't want to lose off the c: drive. I also keep a norton ghost image on the second partiton and I can put a clean install of windows across to the c: drive in minutes.
Having said that any programs I install all go on the c: drive I don't bother with games on d: etc.
