Hard drive set up?

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allstar_07

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I've been running windows 98 and a load of programs from a 6gb hd. I've just bought a 80gb maxtor 7200rpm. I would like to know which set up would give the best performance.

I.E:
Just get rid of the old 6gb and run everything from the 80. If so, would it be best just to run windows from a small partition and the rest for other programs and storage?

Or run windows from the 6gb and have the 80 for programs and storage?

Also whats the best software etc to do the partition, formatting and file copying?

I could get a newer versin of windows(would newer versions run as good on a P3 450Mhz 328mb ram) and start from scratch on the 80 but still what would be the best partitioning ratios etc?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. :D

Chris
 
Run the system off the faster drive.., namely the 80GB drive. You can put the virtual memory on the second drive and use that 2nd drive as a scratch drive :)
 
OK cheers, would it be better just to make the 80 one big drive or to partition it into two and have just the o/s on one of them-would this give any increases in performance?

Is there a free program i can use to accurately move everything across onto the new drive with? As i heard FDISk and XCOPY have there limitations?

Cheers
 
you could just put your old HD in as a slave and move your stuff over that way, and also i think you should be able to run Windows 2000 just fine with that set up, that way you would have more driver support and whatnot...you could run XP with it too, but it might be a tad slow, it would just depend on what all you do and your definition of fast :)
 
i have a partition on my 80GB as 15GB with windows and all my programs on and the 65GB with games music etc. this way, if i have to re format my comp, i dont havre to put everything bak on. but definitely put windows on a partition of the 80 becuase the rpm will be faster
 
but definitely put windows on a partition of the 80 becuase the rpm will be faster
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how so? accessing the 65GB partition and the 15GB partition at the same time will be just as slow/fast.
 
i mean for allstar. so he puts windows on the 80GB hard drive and not on the 6GB. if he wants to partition the 80 then so be it.
 
Hard Drive Partitioning

I set my new drive up as master and booted with windows 2000 software, I did this to use the partitioning software within 2000 as when i was using fdisk in 98 it would only recognise 12gb of my 80.

Anyway, i couldn't change the size of the partition when doing the set up so have now just got one big primary partition?

Is there a way to use disk management or whatever to add more partitions and change the size of this one without losing all the stuff i've put on? :rolleyes:

Cheers
 
so he puts windows on the 80GB hard drive and not on the 6GB
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Oh ok :) I read it as you sayung the 80GB drive would somehow spin faster with partitioning :P

Use partition magic to try and repartition the drive without loosing data
 
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