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Partitioning 160gb SATA hdd
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Posted by: Gandhi
Hello, I used to know a tutorial on how to split up your hard drive space for optimal preformance, like 4gb for windows XP, 4gb for the pagefile, and so on.. but I seem to have lost it. Does anyone know of a VERY GOOD optimal preformance partition tutorial?
Posted by: Ion Silverbolt
http://partition.radified.com/
A 4 Gig swapfile seems like a waste to me. I don't even use my swapfile when i'm playing HL2 with a Gig of RAM.
Posted by: Gandhi
thnx silv, but I saw that site already, and it doesnt seem like much of a good tutorial, its more like a bunch of tips. I'm looking for something clean, simple, and easy.
Posted by: Gandhi
it seems that it is recommended that you forget about the page file if you have 1gb or more memory. so I suppose that is what I will do.
Posted by: Gandhi
this is what I think I will do.
Use: GBs=MB's
Windoze 8 8192
Temp/p2p 12 12288
Games 20 20480
Progz/Docs/Music 120 122880
Posted by: redwench
if you can fit windows and all the utility programs on 8gb, im amazed. youre going to need a swapfile, even if it rarely gets used. its not like you have a shortage of space there. there is no benefit to putting the pagefile on a separate partition from windows.
remember what your partitions are for: so you can format one without losing the data on the others and run maintenance programs quicker. as they are all on the same physical drive, there is no change in performance from everything being on one partition. there is no optimization 
Posted by: Oldcrocd
You could try a look at
www.Rojakpot.com. Misc articles, then 'Swapfile Optim Guide'
I have also seen somewhere an article on placing Swapfile into a created RAM drive. This enables the swapfile to not get cluttered as it clears everytime you switch off or purge RAM drive. (an old DOS system for making little things go faster)
Red is quite right though, as usual, there is not that much reason with todays large HDD
to have partitions or logical drives. Personally I would always have some as I defrag quite often to maintain speed, (Only using a P II 350Mhz and 384Mb RAM).
With the NTFS system there is now no valid reason only personal preference, with FAT 32 there was a reason.
There are plenty of sites about you may like to look at
www.MajorGeeks.com
You might also try the HDD manufacturers web sites and see what is recommended
Posted by: Ocean
i have a 160 gig hdd
10 gigs for windows and programs, (i actually only use about 4 gigs with all my programs on it)
10 gigs for games
100~ gigs for movies
20 Gigs for programs, music, etc
10 gigs for game ISOs
5 gigs for fragmented temp files junk, etc
a couple of organizational screenies
http://webpages.charter.net/ocean/M...mp%20Screenies/
and a thread from a time ago
http://www.opentechsupport.net/foru...ht=partitioning
Posted by: redwench
oh, yeah. nothing against partitioning, i would recommend it anyway on a drive that large, if only to preserve your sanity. but performance will be unaffected, its for convenience only.
Posted by: Ocean
im wondering if there is a glitch that makes the recycle bin hang in win2k if you have 5 or more partitions.
but primarily i end up using it for, organization, and simplifying defragmenting.
essentially the only partition i ever defrag is my gaming one. cause i install a 4 gig demo play 1 hour and delete it. quite alot.
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