Am I able to partition unused portions of my exisiting HD?

ETSA

ETSA

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I wanted to create a seperate partition for the virtual memory without reformatting my HD. I am using Windows XP.
 
Virtual memory is used off of every partition, you are going to have a page file on the C drive no matter what, you can't get rid of it. I see no reason at all to create a separate partition for virtual memory.
 
u probably wont get that big an imperovement in speed depending on how much ram you have and what hard drive you have
 
How does fragmentation have anything to do with page files/virtual memory? Putting in another partition would make the drive fragment faster, because it would have less space to put files in.
 
Yes, but defraging it would be much quicker as well, and cause the large portion to not fragment as much....
 
dave597 said:
just defrag often, i reccommend diskeeper, and also defrag the page file if needed
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The page file is part of the C drive

But if you put another partition to use as the page file, defragging it wouldn't do any good, because it is used as RAM; hence the data is constantly in and out of the hdd.
 
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