Re: Partition Hard Drive?

"radon" <sss@sss.sss> wrote in message
news:N6tJa.8575$I7.13466@news1.mts.net...
> 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~" <misfit@'SPAMTRAP'orcon.net.nz> wrote in message
> news:V8kJa.44708$JA5.778947@news.xtra.co.nz...
> >
> > "Bob Newman" <bobnewman@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
> > news:vqfJa.16403$0v4.1324187@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
> > > 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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