How would you partition a 160GB HDD

[Howard]

Partition Magic is good at doing it without reinstalling Windows. If you're doing a fresh install, the Windows setup has a good built in formatting/partition utility that works well.

[johnyhy1]

ok i have a few questions if thats alright, swap file how do you ensure it is at the front of the drive?

also i presume you leave it formated to ntsc and put nothing on it???

[da_ging]

u make it the first partition that way its at the start of the drive ,ntfs or fat32 dont think it really matters tbh ,after youve told windows to put the swap file on it yep u just leave

[johnyhy1]

thanks for the reply, ok so if i wanted to use partition majic to create that swap file space it wouldnt work? i would have to fdisk my whole drive first?

also if i created a 2gig partition in windows setup it would wana call it c: so my windows installation would be on d: is that right i'm not missing anything?

what kind of performance increase would it have if i was to do this?

sorry about all the questions

thanks

[mike_w]

If you use partition magic, I think you can choose the letters for the drives, so you could make windows C: and the swap file whatever you wanted, regardless of the order you create them.

[Lexeus]

With Partition MAgic you can move the partitions about, so you can make sure that the swap file partition would be at the beginning of the drive. It is my favourite program by far, Partition Magic 8.0 is what I use