I have heard that putting windows on it's own hard drive makes operation of your computer signifigantly faster. I have three questions: 1. How much space do I need on the second hard drive 2. What speed should your HDD be for best operation (as in what RPM) 3. What will it change on my computer (settings, internet etc..) and will I need to format my HDD? Thanks

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It would be a lot easier to do this the other way around. Which computer, make and 
model, are you using? How big is the hard-drive and what other drive specifications 
can you give? Is it already partitioned and is it formatted to FAT32 or to NTFS. 
(Look in Disk Mangement for the answer there.)

I have an 80 GB drive running at 7,200 rev/min with an 8 MB drive cache, partitioned 
into four sections. You can get bigger faster drives with bigger drive-caches, but 
this will do.

Drive C: is the Primary partition and is 10 GB in size. Windows XP US English is 
installed on this drive.

The rest of the drive consists of an Extended partition divided into three Logical 
drives.

Drive D: is the first of these and is also 10 GB in size. Windows XP French version 
is installed on this drive, and I can choose which operating system to use when the 
computer is first starting up.

Drive E: holds documents, music and images common to both operating systems.

Drive F: is an Archive and Backup drive also common to both oerating systems.

Click on the XP link above download and install Everest Home to find the size and 
model number of the drive. You can check your processor and other temperatures with 
this program and see what the fan speeds are as well.

You might not have to re-format if you can simply re-partition, but you need plenty 
of space to be able to do this, so how big is the drive and how much free-space is 
left?
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This link will give you a good idea of Drive and Partition setup for the nbest performance 
and general use.  Bear in mind that as the link says - what is good for one is not 
good for everyone so plan and decide the use and space requirements for YOU!

The best speed is generally the faster rpm - but that is qualified by cost obviously. 
 7,200 rpm is pretty standard - 10,000 is better.

Yes - you will need to basically start over again if you already have a working OS 
- deleting, partitioning and formatting.  You 'could' do it with something like Partition 
Magic but I wouldn't recommend it for a a good system.

Drive and 
Partitioning Strategy



 
Paulina

Um I think I've got you all confused- I'm talking about putting windows on a different physical hard drive.


On Saturday, July 30, 2005 at 2:56 am, Paulina wrote:
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This would be how I would do it.... first get a brand shiny new hard drive which 
will become your main windows drive. I have a 80Gb drive to hold Windows and all 
installed programs.  Speed wise, the previous posts have offered good tips - high 
RPM, large cache etc.

Install and configure your drives so the new one is the primary drive and the old 
drive is the slave. (Don't worry about all the files and the Windows instalatin on 
the old drive - just leave them there for now).

Run the Windows XP setup and install it to the C: drive (the new one)

When you boot from this new drive, it will use the new installation of Windows on 
C: and in My Computer, the old one should be listed as D: From there you can delete 
everything on it except the files you wish to keep.

Then I would left-click Start and right-click on My Documents, go to Properties and 
choose D: as the My Documents folder.

This way, all installed programs will go to C and all your documents and files to 
D. If you ever need to format, you can do it knowing that the D drive will remain 
untouched!

Hope this helps.









On Saturday, July 30, 2005 at 6:02 pm, Orangehenry wrote:

>Um I think I've got you all confused- I'm talking about putting windows on a different 

>physical hard drive.

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The Partitioning principles still apply.  If you put Windows on a different faster 
drive or not - still separate your applications and data from the OS.



 
Paulina

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