File organisation

WeatherMan

WeatherMan

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Hi people,

Just a quick question here

I currently have a Primary SATA 320GB disk and a 160GB External USB drive also attached.

ATM I have all my files on the 1 Primary disk.

I was wondering, would I get a speed increase from windows if I installed all my programs onto the ext drive and just kept windows and movies and games on the 320GB?

I thought it could maybe work as this way thousands of files are kept off the disk with having no programs on there.
And I would also be defragging my ext drive quite a lot.

The reason I ask is because I do usually have to use programs at other peoples houses when fixing sytsems and its a pain in the **** downloading spyware programs on dial up while you have 70 odd processes running.

I have been thinking about putting them on the ext drive and keep them there because if I had them on both that is obviously just a waste of disk space!

Thanks
 
It probably will help a bit as windows will have it's own drive and loading times would increase for programs if they were also on their own drive but probably not by much. I have mine set up that way but mainly to avoid windows from getting corrupted. Never had a problem with windows again ever since I did that.
 
I would do it the other way around, and have all the programs and Windows on the main drive, and all media on the second one. Just my opinion.
 
ya id go with the second option...only because it would suck to get all ur programs installed on the external and then realize AFTER you install them that the external drive isnt bootable. the second hdd in my laptop i thought i could install some of my less used programs on that and then after they installed, i realized that hp had set the second hdd so that it was only for storage and wasnt bootable...i wonder if theres a way around that...make sure ur hdd is bootable. cuz it seems to try to put the reg files on the drive the programs on, and ur reg is with the windows drive, so it has conflicts and wont boot
 
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