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I read from other fellows that they had instaled fs9 in a partition in hard drives, what are the benefits doing that?
im know how clusters get damage in the divide setion of the h drive but if my programs runs better im able to take my risk..any answer from the expert ill presiate it

I'm no great authority on this but here's my opinion. Installing programs like the M$ sims might be better on a separate partition from your OS. Going online for even a few minutes every day can soon fragment the HD. With the large HDs commonly used these days a Defrag can take some considerable time. It's quicker & more convenient to Defrag a partition regularly rather than the complete HD. The ideal situation would be to use a separate HD for this purpose. Unlike all previous versions of FS/CFS, FS9 uses some files (like fs9.cfg) in locations other than its own directory. I don't know how this would affect anything.

Hi hagar,I already have 2 drives 80 gigabytes each the second one are Music,videos,its half used but nonoperating system at all,how about if i partition the 2nd one,will it work,so what do you thing,i don't care if you are an authority or no,your opinion is what i care my friend
  cheers

Hi Alrot. I have 2 hard drives on my old machine. The biggest drive is partitioned so in effect I have 3. I've installed the earlier M$ sims to all drives without a problem. In some cases I've had more than one install* of CFS2 on separate drives which all ran quite happily. (*I've never tried this with FS9 & doubt it would work.)

I was always a little wary of partitioning a drive that is already in use.

I was always a little wary of partitioning a drive that is already in use.

 I'm agree with you