Partition Hard Drive?
 

"radon" wrote in message
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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.
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"~misfit~" wrote in message
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"Bob Newman" wrote in message
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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.
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