How Should I Partition In This Situation???

[Playmaker]

I have a 40gig HD I plan on installing with only Win2k Pro. The system will be used mostly for gaming, so performance is important. I plan on running NFTS. By doing a search it seems 1 small partition for the win2k and swap file and the rest on 1 large partition would work best. I would prefer to keep partitions to a minimum. Does the partition for win2k even help speeds? How bid should it be if I do make one? Which files do I put in it to get the best performance? Thanks in advance.

 

[murdock2525]

Speed is a relative term.You wont see much of a difference. Moving the swap file to another drive speeds things up a little but its no big deal.
To Partition ? You need room for the OS and room to defrag it.
Make C:/ 3 gig.Install the OS...Drivers,printers,scanners..get her going.
Move the swap file to the other partition..set the minimum and maximum size for the swap file the same...around 500meg....
Load all subsequent programs,documents,games, music...everything...in the other partition.That way if you need to reload the OS or you want to change the OS your only working on C:...everything else is safe and sound...
Of course going to NTFS you're limited to the OS choices but NTFS is the only way to fly.

 

[HansXP]

IMHO, one partition works fine. You won't notice the difference if you partition.

 

[ValkyrieKT7]

To me there isn't a real reason to partition a drive these days because you sacrifice disk performance. Two seems fine ..but anymore than that, you're asking your drive to do too much ..and don't put the page file on another partition but rather another drive.