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Partitioning for Optimization

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halfpower

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I currently have 1x 160GB hard drive. I intend to partition it because I was told that this would boost my system performance. I've been told that I should make a small boot partition for my operating system and program files, and another for my data files. The problem is that some of my program files such as Adobe Acrobat are very small. Others such as E-mu EmulatorX take up a few Gigs. Should I put my program files on the boot partition even if they are very large? Will Acrobat load faster if it is on the boot partition? Or will it load just as fast on a data partition since all its registry information is on the boot partition anyway?

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halfpower

I started a thread not long ago on this same issue. Sorry if this thread is a little redundant, but I suspect that the original thread has died of old age.
 
I have a 120 GB HD I portioan my Main OS C: portition to 90 GB and the rest as D: for storage, I like to keep at least 30 GB free on my C: at all times, and I keep files I use alot and don't want to loose on my D: that way I can just format my C: at any given times.
 
You should do fine with 30 gigs for the OS and the rest for backup. If you have large programs that take up a considerable amount of space, you could always create a D:\Program Files folder for these specific programs.
 
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