Can Partition Logic do the trick?

[PaulFXH]

Hi

I want to partition my internal HDD (80GB, ATA, NTFS, WinXPas OS) into
three partition; one for the OS, one for apps and another for file
storage. My only incentive for doing this is the belief that my
computer performance will improve (although I have also read that WinXP
performs best when installed on a drive WITHOUT partitions).

For the partitioning, I have considered using the freeware Partition
Logic.
I have seen quite a few posts on this here but not a lot of praise.
Has anybody had a good experience with this product?
In particular,

1. Is it easy to use?
2. Is it reliable?
3. Will it do the partitioning without losing my files and folders?

TIA
Paul

 

[jmatt]

1. Is it easy to use?
2. Is it reliable?
3. Will it do the partitioning without losing my files and folders?

Human error will be your biggest problem, practice on an old drive & if
you do go ahead, make sure you have a backup of your old drive, I keep
mine on a spare HD.

I used to have my drives partitioned, you will find endless discussion
on the subject, via your search engine.

Advantages of Multi-Partition Drives
http://partition.radified.com/partitioning_2.htm
Partitioning Strategies
http://partition.radified.com/

 

[Al Klein]

I want to partition my internal HDD (80GB, ATA, NTFS, WinXPas OS) into
three partition; one for the OS, one for apps and another for file
storage. My only incentive for doing this is the belief that my
computer performance will improve (although I have also read that WinXP
performs best when installed on a drive WITHOUT partitions).

It's like this:

If what you're doing requires a file from the kernel (OS partition)
then a file from storage (data of some kind), the head has to travel
from the first partition to the third partition, a long trip.

Performance is enhanced when you do things like this with more than
one drive. Copying a huge file, for instance, means a lot of trips
for the head if the source and destination are on one drive. If
they're on 2 drives, the heads stay pretty much in one place, just
moving up the files, cluster by cluster.

IOW, you'll either get the same performance (if your drive is now
pretty fragmented) or worse performance (if it's not). In effect,
you're fragmenting your drive in a lot of situations.

 

[PaulFXH]

Al Klein escreveu:

Thanks to Al and j.... for your comments.
I have to say that I'm still a little confused as to whether
partitioning can provide any performance boost at all. Indeed, Al's
post seems to suggest that the type of gain I had been expecting is
unlikely.
Nevertheless, I was referring in my first post to the freeware program
Partition Logic whose home page is here: http://visopsys.org/partlogic/
While I have seen a number of threads in the NG about this product, I
have yet to see any that were "singing its praises".
Has anybody got anything good to say about Partition Logic?
TIA
Paul

 

[Fran]

Ranish partition manager is THE free partition manager, and you could also
try no-nagged shareware BootIT-NG, the best I've used so far.

 

[jmatt]

Has anybody got anything good to say about Partition Logic?

Partition Logic review
http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=...=result&cd=1&q=Partition+Logic+review&spell=1

 

[Al Klein]

Has anybody got anything good to say about Partition Logic?

Any good partition manager will make managing partitions easier, but:

1) ALWAYS do a full backup before playing with partitions. Murphy is
still there.

2) Partitioning a drive accomplishes a lot of things, and it doesn't
accomplish others. Regardless of the partitioning software you use, a
partitioned drive isn't the same as 2 drives.