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It's said it will be a little bit quicker if its on the OS drive... but I don't think it really matters really..... I run FSX on my secondary partion...

Cheers, Gunny

You wouldn't ever notice any speed advantage that might come from placing the sim on the OS drive.

There are so many drive configurations possible Alrot, including RAID as you have two drives the same size.

Consider also that buying a larger hard drive would boost performance more than any partitioning options would. (other than raid)

Hard disk performance has such a minimal impact on FS9/X performance that it's hardly worth a mention. Hard disk performance matters more when you do a lot of large file operations, such as backup operations and huge file transfers, which is what I do frequently.

I always have two operating systems installed on seperate HDD's in case Windows dies on me, but XP is so stable these days, it hardly seems to be an issue. One thing I do like about having two systems installed, is that I can experiment and do things I would normally be too scared to do if I only had one Op Sys.

If it was me, I'd get a 160gb HDD or larger and RAID-0 the two 80gb drives together, install windows on the raid array and the new drive, partitioning 20gb/140gb on the new drive. Use the RAID-0 array as my main boot drive and keep everything duplicated onto the new 160gb HDD. That would not suit everyone though, it's just the way I do it. I keep the backup drive unplugged except during the backup.

Because Alrots PC is old, I would recommend the FS9 or FSX install be on the same hard drive as  the OS


FS9 and FSX will argue a bit looking for system files if they are not installed in the OS. Typically, faster systems will not see a big problem with that but slower systems need every single advantage possible to run the software smoothly so my advice is to install them into the OS on a hard driver that is not partitioned.