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Partition Hard Drive?
"radon" wrote in message ... I didn't know that a FAT32 drive for the swap file would be faster. By how much? There's not a lot in it, maybe 10%. If the drive's on a slow controller it can be noticable. -- ~misfit~ ================== AMD Athlon XP1800+ T'bred 'B' core @ 1950Mhz. Standard HSF and vcore. "~misfit~" wrote in message ... "Bob Newman" wrote in message ... I am an everyday, a little above average home user and have had conflicting opinions as to the need for partitioning my 60 gig hard drive. Does it really give me any advantage of over just using different folders to organize my computer? I am running Windows XP Professional and do have some music & photo files but not an overwhelming amount. What are your opinions about partitioning the drive? Thanks in advance... Bob If I was setting up a HDD for use as you describe I would create three partitions. One, of between five and 15 Gigs for the OS and programs. If you intend to install a lot of games etc. then go with the upper range. Another partition of 550Mb that I would format with FAT32 that would be solely for a 512Mb fixed-size swapfile. (It has to be a little larger than 512, windows won't let you use it all, it reserves some for volume information etc.) The third partition would be for data, music files, documents, whatever... Decide on the size of the partition for the OS and create it during the install procedure, XP will put the swapfile on this partition, you can move it later. I would suggest using NTFS partitions for everything but the swapfile. The only reason I use FAT32 for the s/f is that it's a little faster to access. Once you've installed XP, go to control panel, administritive tools, computer management, disk management and set up the other two partitions from there. BTW, you can always install programs to the data partition later if the OS partition gets a bit crowded but it's neater to keep them all on the one partition. That's how I have all my machines set up and it works really well. -- ~misfit~ ================== AMD Athlon XP1800+ T'bred 'B' core @ 1950Mhz. Standard HSF and vcore. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.491 / Virus Database: 290 - Release Date: 18/06/2003 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.491 / Virus Database: 290 - Release Date: 18/06/2003 |
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