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Partitioning Drives Need help

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OneEyeWilly

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I have 3 hard drives.(2) 750 gigs,and (1) 320 gig drive.I use the 750 gig as my primary drive for my os.I am using XP Pro service pack 3.I partitioned this drive,and made (2) partitions.One being 35 gigs for my main os,and have the remaining 660 gigs on the other partition for movies.I use my 320 gig drive as storage. I would use the 320 drive for windows 7,but this drive is 16mb cache vs the other (2) 750 gigs drives that are 32mb cache.

My other 750 gig drive is partitioned into 3 primary drives.40,80,and 580 gigs.I use the 40 gig drive for gaming,The 80 gig is not used,and the 580 gig holds all my music and concerts.

I want to have a dual boot and install windows 7 on the 80 gig,so I can play Just Cause 2.I game mostly with xp on the 40 gig drive,but made 3 partitions because I need Windows 7 now.This drive is partitioned in this order from left to right

40-80-580.Since I game mostly on the 40 gig,The 80 is my target for windows 7.

Now my question.Will this set up affect the speed of my games.I mean will my hardrive have to work harder,or run slower based on this set up.At this point I just have the drive partitioned into 3 drives,and have not installed Windows 7 yet.I am using the 580 gigs on this drive for music.

Any help is very much appreciated.
 
Worrying about partitions? Not much of any performance change.
Key to performance increase, move your virtual memory/swapfile (pagefile.sys) to a separate spindle from the OS..meaning totally different hard drive. Install OS to fastest drive, install programs to fastest drive, keep your data storage on other drives. Try not to overpartition.
 
Overpartitioning is not going to help with your gaming, and can decrease performance in some cases. If it was me, I'd make the 320 GB drive C with Windows 7 installed, keep the 750 GB for storage, and put the second 750 GB drive in an external cage to use as backup.
 
First of all, unless you have a really good reason to keep XP just move to windows 7.

Second, Performance is not a reason to partition a drive. You might get better performance in some situations and worse in others, but it really won't be notieceable eitherway.

As Yeoldstonecat said moving your swapfile to a separate drive (not partition) and installing the OS in the fastest drive is your best bet.

You can also install your apps/games in a separate drive but it really won't make much difference.

You could also use your 2 750gb drives in raid 0 but you risk data loss.

BTW how much RAM do you have? I assume less than 4gb since you are using XP.
 
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