Partitions

[Terry]

At what size is it best to partition a hard drive for maximum speed while
using Windows XP Home?

Is there any benefit to having the OS on a physically separate Hard Drive
and all other programs and files on another?

TIA,

Terry

 

[Sandman]

A lot of people partition a HD, and for whatever their reasoning, it makes
no sense to me, since there is no useful redundancy here; if a drive fails
you lose everything on the drive anyway. It also will affect the NTFS system
in XP that places files etc in a certain order which makes access to them
more efficient; seeking on the HD...If you have 2 separate OS; like Windows
ME on 1 partition and XP on the other, I guess that is a good reason to do
it.. (a dual boot situation) I don't think you can install XP on a drive
and the Programs and files (whatever you mean by that) on another drive. And
if you could; for what purpose?

 

[Terry]

Thanks.
That's why I asked.

A lot of people partition a HD, and for whatever their reasoning, it makes
no sense to me, since there is no useful redundancy here; if a drive
fails
you lose everything on the drive anyway. It also will affect the NTFS
system
in XP that places files etc in a certain order which makes access to them
more efficient; seeking on the HD...If you have 2 separate OS; like
Windows
ME on 1 partition and XP on the other, I guess that is a good reason to do
it.. (a dual boot situation) I don't think you can install XP on a drive
and the Programs and files (whatever you mean by that) on another drive.
And
if you could; for what purpose?

 

[DaveDouglas]

What about doing an Image of your C drive to a DVD? Would you like to
backup to 1 DVD or many?

 

[Terry]

It isn't that I want to do a backup. I was talking about partition sizes.
Wondering if one size were any better than another. So far, there doesn't
seem to be any good reason to partition a hard drive when using Windows XP.
I guess it's a thing of the past.