How to Speed up your Hard Disk :-) (Zak's Partition Theory)

^ I do a very similar thing to that at the moment but without a seperate partition for settings. XP has been fine for 18 months with very little defraging required.

edited for clarity.

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Originally Posted by Sinizter

Here's the guide from ZapWizard ... Its based on Win2K, but should apply just fine to XP.

http://www.zapwizard.com/Guides/Partitioning/index.html

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Ooh, that looks cool...I might give that a shot sometime, see how it goes, thanks :)

that's a good addition.... cheers :)

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Originally Posted by kidzer

Ooh, that looks cool...I might give that a shot sometime, see how it goes, thanks :)

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++ It would be nice if Microsoft made Windows support this multi-partitioning schema without hacking up the registry.

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Originally Posted by aidanjt

++ It would be nice if Microsoft made Windows support this multi-partitioning schema without hacking up the registry.

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That is probably worthwhile if you are not running out of drive letters on all desktops like me.

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Originally Posted by arthurleung

That is probably worthwhile if you are not running out of drive letters on all desktops like me.

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looking at your Sig, with pc specs in, that IS a lot of letters!

I thought I was greedy on the disk space front...

Lol i thought i was greedy too..(goes off to count his gigabytes). I might try this partitioning system on my next install.

pls do....mnes doing well :)

Drive C, E, G and H are WDAAKS 500gig. Drive S is Maxtor dont know which one. Drive T is Hitachi Deskstar. Windows Vista give HDD transfer speed a 5.8.


http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/6240/hddvu4.jpg

Are these number any good?

Well, the C drive certainly proves the theory works quite well, as that's your first partition and it's faster than the others :)

G interests me.....was that un formatted?

What's good tool to test the disk performance? I don't really want to install Nero as I have no other need for it.

HD Tach, SiSandra? (not used that in a while).

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Originally Posted by Zak33

Well, the C drive certainly proves the theory works quite well, as that's your first partition and it's faster than the others :)

G interests me.....was that un formatted?

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G is what was left over from the initial partition which is drive C. So i partitioned the 500GB HDD to a 100GB partition, C, and then G was the 365GB left over. I then took about 28GB and 2GB from the 365GB for Vista.

some high-end storage systems (i.e. ours) use this theory in practice - the entire system is made from 7200rpm sata disks, but it exceeds fibre-channel performance by using platter edges for "high priority" data

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-Gobbob