I would partition the 6 gigabyte harddrive into a two gig partition and a 4
gig partition. The two gig should be more than enough for windows XP. The 4
gig can be used for software. The 20 gig can be used for downloaded files
and documents. The cdrw should be put on the same ide channel as the 6 gig
harddrive since you probably will not be burning anything from it. You will
be burning from the 20 gig which is used for downloaded files and such. See,
you never want to put a cdrw on the same ide channel with the source you are
burning from. If you had a cd or dvd drive you would also put it on a
different ide channel from the cdrw. This is the most efficient setup
available.




>From: Paul Ecclestone <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: [PCBUILD] Partitioning for performance (real life - not the
>       theoretical              stuff)
>Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 10:12:43 -0500
>
>I have the following - 2 hard drives (a 20gb and a 6 gb - not a lot by
>today's standard
>- but plenty for me), a CDRW and Windows XP.  What would be the most
>efficient
>way to set up my hard drives (in real terms - not theoritical performance).
>
>Some thoughts...
>
>1.  I would like advice on Windows XP partition size.
>2.  Should programs be in the same partition as Windows?  Same drive?  If
>not,
>would there really be much of an increase in performance?
>3.  For sure data will be in a different partition - but should that
>partition be on a
>separate drive?
>4.  Does XP use swap files?  If so, should they be in a separate partion?
>Separate
>drive? Will this really make much of a difference in real life performance?
>
>The computer is used mainly for surfing / email, spreadsheets and word
>processing.
>I don't keep a lot of crap on the system so hard drive space is not an
>issue.
>
>Regards,
>
>Paul Ecclestone
>
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