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**justpassingby** · 06-03-2007, 12:48 PM

And in he left corner, the challenger

Good idea you had there to start a new thread Girderman. Hopefully we'll reach to some definitive conclusions here as I'm wanting to learn the truth as much as you are.

Just wanted to quickly jump in and add a few remarks :

I don't think you'll change a turtle in a hare only by optimizing the partition's layout. There are lots of things that need to be done beforehand.

The starting point would have to be a clean and already optimized to the max computer. My point is I'm just trying to grab out some more milliseconds in here. My system being fast and responsive surely is more related to not having crapware installed than on the partition layout I'm using.

My system is on the first 15GB partition of a WD raptor 150GB drive. That partition has all windows files, microsoft office (custom install), antivirus, and all programs I use everyday or I want on that partition for some particular reason (adobe, vlc, winrar, imgburn, firefox, quicktime alternative, XXclone, ...).
Second partition on the raptor is a 45GB partition where I install bigger programs that are not related to windows and which files probably aren't needed in the boot process. It contains mostly games. I could have used a smaller partition for that one since even in my worst nightmares I have never used more than 25GB for my program files (mostly from having 5 games installed at the same time).
Third partition (rest of the space) is for downloads and medias files.

The swap file is on the first 5GB partition of my second Hitachi Desktar 320GB drive. It's a 2GB fixed size file. Rest of that drive is used for storage, backups and ghosts.

I want to specify that this layout is adapted to my own specific needs. I don't do video editing nor use 3D studio or Photoshop. All I want with this scheme is to have my system and boot files localized on the fastest part of the drive, without any other files interfering, and to ensure all future system updates will stay close of the current system files. Fragmentation is not much of a problem since most of my downloads will be done on a separate partition. And the swap file has its own disk.

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justpassingby Moderator, Microsoft Support Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Belgium Posts: 6,219 OS: XP Home SP3 / Ubuntu My System	Re: Can Partitioning Optimize Hard Drive Access ? And in he left corner, the challenger Good idea you had there to start a new thread Girderman. Hopefully we'll reach to some definitive conclusions here as I'm wanting to learn the truth as much as you are. Just wanted to quickly jump in and add a few remarks : I don't think you'll change a turtle in a hare only by optimizing the partition's layout. There are lots of things that need to be done beforehand. The starting point would have to be a clean and already optimized to the max computer. My point is I'm just trying to grab out some more milliseconds in here. My system being fast and responsive surely is more related to not having crapware installed than on the partition layout I'm using. My system is on the first 15GB partition of a WD raptor 150GB drive. That partition has all windows files, microsoft office (custom install), antivirus, and all programs I use everyday or I want on that partition for some particular reason (adobe, vlc, winrar, imgburn, firefox, quicktime alternative, XXclone, ...). Second partition on the raptor is a 45GB partition where I install bigger programs that are not related to windows and which files probably aren't needed in the boot process. It contains mostly games. I could have used a smaller partition for that one since even in my worst nightmares I have never used more than 25GB for my program files (mostly from having 5 games installed at the same time). Third partition (rest of the space) is for downloads and medias files. The swap file is on the first 5GB partition of my second Hitachi Desktar 320GB drive. It's a 2GB fixed size file. Rest of that drive is used for storage, backups and ghosts. I want to specify that this layout is adapted to my own specific needs. I don't do video editing nor use 3D studio or Photoshop. All I want with this scheme is to have my system and boot files localized on the fastest part of the drive, without any other files interfering, and to ensure all future system updates will stay close of the current system files. Fragmentation is not much of a problem since most of my downloads will be done on a separate partition. And the swap file has its own disk. __________________ Malware removal steps. Post your logs there and not here ! Posting system specs Last edited by justpassingby; 06-03-2007 at 12:52 PM.