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1256445	2012-01-29 21:35:00	I dont notice any slowness, having 4 partitions. Since, 2 of them have nothing on them. I do use XP mode on C. But, I only use it for slipstreaming updates. And testing the ISO after. If the hdd is big enough, why not create extra partitions and use them?? Since each partition is treated like a separate hdd. You can boot from it like a hdd, and format it as if it were a separate hdd. And if a partition gets infected by something, you can format it, without affecting the other partitions. It'd save you installing 2-3 hdd's in the case	Speedy Gonzales (78)
1256446	2012-01-29 21:42:00	Multiple drives is always going to be faster (a bigger expense though, power, cooling and cost )	gcarmich (10068)
1256447	2012-01-29 21:42:00	I dont notice any slowness, having 4 partitions. Since, 2 of them have nothing on them. I do use XP mode on C. But, I only use it for slipstreaming updates. And testing the ISO after. If you have multiple partitions on a single drive and treat them as separate physical disk in the sense that you try to read and write from all of them at once, you WILL notice performance problems, because the drive head is going to have to seek all over the drive platters to perform operations on all the different partitions. Having 4 separate drives means 4 independent head stacks (and everything else) meaning they can all read and write simultaneously. I have never liked multiple partitions for that reason, and the reason for the original post - when you run out of room and try to move them around it's a pain in the butt. Much better to just copy the whole drive to a new, bigger drive, if you run out of space.	Agent_24 (57)
1256448	2012-01-29 21:45:00	And how would you do that?? Open computer / my computer 10,000 times lol. And open every folder, on all of the partitions?	Speedy Gonzales (78)
1256449	2012-01-29 21:48:00	Moving and resizing partitions is also a very dangerous operation. It could destroy all the partitions on the drive.	gcarmich (10068)
1256450	2012-01-29 22:46:00	And how would you do that?? Open computer / my computer 10,000 times lol. And open every folder, on all of the partitions? Copy a large file to one partition, while burning to DVD a file from another partition, while playing a game from a 3rd partition and doing a virus scan on the 4th. Obviously that exact scenario probably doesn't happen often but as you can see it would not be very difficult to run a variety of tasks that would cause quite a slowdown due to the drive having to do so many operations in different areas of the drive at the same time.	Agent_24 (57)
1256451	2012-01-30 02:38:00	Well true which wont happen here (yet). Since 2 partitions have nothing on them. And there are no games on this. Thats what the Xbox is for	Speedy Gonzales (78)
1256452	2012-01-30 04:28:00	Personal opinion here --- Theres one other problem with having several partitions on one HDD. When the HDD Fails, and they will do at sometime, you have just managed to lose all data on all partitions.	wainuitech (129)
1256453	2012-01-30 04:32:00	Only if for some reason you're silly enough to treat separate partitions as physically separate items - You could use folders to divide up your files instead of partitions and still lose the lot if the drive fails. Worst one though is people who make 2 partitions on the same drive and then use one for backing up the other.......	Agent_24 (57)
1256454	2012-01-30 20:34:00	The only real issues with multiple partitions is many just dont know how to manage them, or the C: is made far too small. Ive seen alot of Vaio's with a full C: & almost empty D: :groan: As for putting data on the 2nd partition, so you can wipe/reload the C: at will; would you really reload C: without backing up the data partition 1st???. That pretty much makes that argument invalid.??? You would also have to move all the 'user' directories to the 2nd partition as well.	1101 (13337)
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