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Partition question

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Are there any advantages to installing the OS in one partition and the rest of the stuff (mp3, data, games, etc.) in a second partition? :(



I'm going to reformat my 120g and I don't know whether I should keep things in one giant partition.
 
The potential performance gain is minimal at best. There is a slight theoretical performance boost potential by creating a small boot partition that forces the system to store the boot files in the faster outer zones of the physical disk, and reducing the seek distances for the actuator when working with system files. This seek time advantage is lost as you start working with data, as OS access and data access will seek to different parts of the disk. I wouldn't increase complexity for that small of a performance benefit.

However, the second partition can ease the reformatting process - if you decide that your Windows installation is FUBAR and you want to reformat to restore performance/get rid of spyware/clean out driver residue, you can move any data you want to keep to the second partition rather than a second drive, and simply reformat the boot partition, get a clean install, and save your data.
 
I keep my OS on a seperate partition mainly for one reason. When I reinstall windows I don't have to worry about loosing the files I have on my computer. Plus if you need to backup stuff like your favorites or other stuff on your OS partition you can back it up onto your file partiton. It just makes backing up much easier.
 
You can get a small performance gain by setting up a seperate partition for you page file and formatting it as FAT32 instead of NTFS
 
I was concerns about re-installation of the OS and possibly losing info like you guys suggest. I think I'm going to installs the OS on 1 partition and the rest on a 2nd, thanks for the info. :)


will a backed up image file of the OS (say with ghost) work as a re-installation option?
 
As long as you only have one computer running the Ghost image at one time and you don't make sweeping hardware changes (like a new motherboard).

I have a 8192MB (8GB) C: partition for boot. It has 5.31GB free, although if your box has 1GB of RAM, by default you start off with a 1.5GB pagefile and 1GB for hiberfile.sys, which is used for system hibernation. My figure for free space on C: is with hibernation disabled and a 128MB page file. 4GB for boot is probably enough then, although Windows may complain at first about not having enough room for the page file - you should force your system to use physical memory anyway. BTW, defragmenting a smaller boot partition takes maybe 2 minutes, which is another perk.
 
jstenuf said:
You can get a small performance gain by setting up a seperate partition for you page file and formatting it as FAT32 instead of NTFS
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as well as a huge drop in integrity of your data... ntfs is journaled and fat32 isn't. that's why it's faster, but it's more prone to failure. Remember having to scan your hard drives on bootup? Journaled filesystems are the only way to go.
 
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