I'm starting to learn more and more about computers ever since I built my own last year.

Running an ASUS A7V8X-X motherboard with an Athlon 1.8GHz processor, 1.0G DDR PC2700 RAM, ATI 9500 AGP video card (64mb RAM), 1 40GB, 1 80GB, 1 120GB hard drives. I reflashed the chip with an updated version from ASUS thinking that might speed things up.

But I never understood why you would need to partition your hardrive? What's the purpose? I would like to reload Windows XP HE to make it run a little faster, seems sort of slow the past month or two.

I've been running VCOM Fix-It Utilities which optimizes hard drive performance and defragmentation, but not noticing any quicker boot-up or speed.

Any suggestions?

 

I partioned my 40gig harddrive to place the OS on the first 10gigs. This way if anything ever becomes corrupt, I can simply format C:\ and not lose anything on my remaining 30gig D:\ drive.

 

:werd:

if the time comes when you need to re-install windows you will have all the important files saved

but i have two hdds so blah

 

i have a 200gb and a 160gb. i used 60gb of the 200gb for the OS and other programs.

 

i use a small drive for my os...then a bigger one for my downloads and files

 

That's what I do too. Except I do it on my 80gig; first 10 gigs = xp pro; other 70gigs = programs/documents; then HDD2 (160gig) = 1 partition = downloads, storage, etc.

 

yellowbastard said it all. that way if the partition with the OS ever gets messed up, you arent forced delete your non-system files when you reformat.

 

o , so u wont loose any of your porn?

 

yep

 

you guys are all full of shit