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I received my new RMA'd Maxtor 250, 16MB today. I want to baby this thing. Should I partition the OS on a seperate partition? How do I know which partition is faster? Should I process a long or short format? Please provide any ideas or recomendation. Thanks in advance.
 
With one drive, you will not gain any performance by placing the OS on a seperate partition than say your data or a swap file. The only benefit is to have all of the data safe in case you want to re-install Windows (say wiping the OS partition leaving your data partition as is). As far as which partition is faster, someone else may be able to confirm or denied this, but I believe the enter partition (Partition 0>1>2>etc) is faster. The farther out the slower the access. I do not know what you are referring to regarding long or short format?

Recommendation: If you have one drive only -> 2 partitions (OS and DATA) if you have two drives then one if efficient) OS one the first, DATA/SWAP on the second.
 
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