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Partitioning two drives for optimum performance

Asked by reynoldsd in Windows XP Operating System

Tags: size

I am shortly receiving a new Athlon 64 system with 2 hard drives (no RAID controller) and I want advice on how to partition and configure the drives for optimum speed and ease of backup.

My present plan is:
Drive #1:   C:\ for windows and win updates only (10 Gigs)
                 D:\ other stuff ---- Ideas?

Drive #2:   Manufacturer installed Win Aps (Word and Excel and Outlook).  I would like to have first partition of 2 Gigs, with 23k sector size for static page file of between 1200 and 1500 megs.  First partition (physical, not logical) is outermost and will be fastest.  Can I get drive #2 to give me this physical location without having to blow away the aready installed win aps which surely occupy this space now?

I would love to see someone's scheme for where to place the partitions and what is best to place (data and aps) where.  Also, is Partition Magic the best (ease and flexibility) product to work with?

If i ever increase the size of a partition, it will then have two noncontiguous physical locations on the disk, no?  This is bad for performance, no?  Solutions?

I just joined for a month to get some answers so I don't know about the points...  If this series of questions of worth more, can I adjust the points?
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