Looking ahead - Hard disk Partition?

[bm]

As some of you may know I am looking forward to the arrival of my new PC next week . With it comes a two large harddisks. I have heard that a partition or something is benificial to the performance of the OS, games etc.
Is there any easy way of doing this? I was looking at a program in an advert called PartitionMagic 8, is this what I need?

I thought Id think in advance so I can get going as soon as it arrives.....

Thanks.. Birdman

[philsymonds]

Hi Birdman
I use Partition Magic.  I'd be completely lost without it. It's brilliant.  There are cheaper (and even free) programs that work, but they are slower and in my opinion, nowhere near as good.

I have two large HDD's, each split into two partitions.  If running Windows XP, then move your 'swap file' to separate physical drive to the O/S and software applications.  Ideally, on a different IDE channel or SATA.  Made a noticable improvement on mine.
Phil

[bm]

Thanks philsymonds, I shall get that then. Luckily a computer magazine I had bought gives you 50% off it! I shall certainly do your swap file thing.

Thanks again,

[Jared]

Thanks for the info guys...

I've only got one hard drive and i was debating whether or not to just get a bigger one, or get a second one.  given this info and the rest of my research i shall order a second one for my computer soon!

[GeForce]

Yes, there is no denying that Partition Magic 8 is a wonderful program. I do it manually through DOS and FDISK, but this does make it simpler for those who can't use DOS or FDISK. I have a total of 160Gb partitioned into two drives, and it really is fast!

Jonathan

[4_Series_Scania]

Yes, there is no denying that Partition Magic 8 is a wonderful program. I do it manually through DOS and FDISK, but this does make it simpler for those who can't use DOS or FDISK. I have a total of 160Gb partitioned into two drives, and it really is fast!

Jonathan

I'll second all that! PM8 is superb.


I'm certainly somebody who screws  it up beautifully when I try with just FDISK  (F**k it upDISK) should that be?  ::)  :-[  ;D