250 GB HDD Partition

[SlowwHand]

Don't say stupid, Asher. I don't think he means as a defrag option.
A) sometimes it has to be
B) sometimes you choose it to be. Start fresh.

[Asher]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
Don't say stupid, Asher. I don't think he means as a defrag option.
A) sometimes it has to be
B) sometimes you choose it to be. Start fresh.

If you're starting fresh, why would you hold on to your old installed programs and data?

[Japher]

you can replace just the break pads?!

[Richelieu]

Originally posted by Asher
It's what you get when you've got users who don't know what they're doing and geeks too lazy to fix what is actually wrong.

Whatever. I got into the habit with Win95 and never got out of it. I find it serves me well.

[reds4ever]

Every 12 months or so I transfer all my best porn over to DVD and format the drive.

[Richelieu]

Pron is the oil that makes the engine run.

[chequita guevara]

There are arguments for both. The main thing for me is, it keeps the page file seperate and thus defragged, and that different drives have different levels of fragmentation. You don't have to defrag the whole thing anywhere near as often.

It also helps for organizational purposes.

[Asher]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
There are arguments for both. The main thing for me is, it keeps the page file seperate and thus defragged, and that different drives have different levels of fragmentation. You don't have to defrag the whole thing anywhere near as often.

Make the page file a fixed size and it doesn't fragment outside of its allocated space.

The more partitions you have, the more fragmented your files will be overall since each partition is smaller.

[chequita guevara]

The 2nd sentence doesn't make any sense.

[Sikander]

Originally posted by Japher
you can replace just the break pads?!

Dude you should buy my car. It's a classic, everything is real cherry and original. It's got original break pads, wiper blades, air filter, tires and even original oil.

[Richelieu]

Originally posted by Sikander




Dude you should buy my car. It's a classic, everything is real cherry and original. It's got original break pads, wiper blades, air filter, tires and even original oil.

That's a keeper! You keep it.

[Richelieu]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
The 2nd sentence doesn't make any sense.

I agree. A file sits on a single partition AFAIK. More partitions = smaller partitions = faster to defrag.

As for the page file, i keep mine on my system partition and i've let Windows manage the size of it since i switched to XP. I read an article on this that said Microsoft vastly improved the way Windows manages it since W2K.
Before that i would create a specific partition roughly 3 times my RAM size and create my page file in it, making it a fixed size.

[Sikander]

Originally posted by Richelieu




That's a keeper! You keep it.

I guess I have to, I can't afford to have it towed, I'm having a hard enough time making the payments.

[Asher]

Originally posted by Richelieu
I agree. A file sits on a single partition AFAIK. More partitions = smaller partitions = faster to defrag.

It's not about being faster to defrag, it's about needing to be defragged.

The more restrictions you place on where a file can end up, the more fragmented it will become.

[Richelieu]

Files still get fragmented on huge HDs. And defragging a huge HD is time consuming. But i do get your point: it won't get fragmented as much if there's plenty of space to store it.