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shvarz:
Oh, and another question: What's the best way to set up swap file for windows. Some people say to make a separate partition for it (and that does sound reasonable to me), but I am not sure where I should place that partition - beggining of drive, end of drive, same physical drive or the second physical drive... Anyone here knowledgable in that?
Shen:
Put your swap partition on the fastest drive, its going to get used more than most stuff.
As for the duel windows thingy, I dunno. You could try the hilarious method of renaming the windows directory to see if it goes insane or not. If it complains just rename it back to original. If it doesnt go mad then just delete it. Although Im sure theres some method to unset it as a system drive, I just dont know how.
shvarz:
I found out a way to deal with two installs: I need to edit the boot.ini file to remove the second copy of windows.
As for swap file: both drives are almost identical, the just have different capacities. The question is whether I should keep it on the same drive as Windows or on a different drive and if that's going to affect the speed of access. I am a bit hesitant about having windows on one drive and swap on the other: if either goes bad my system is screwed. So I guess I should put it on the same drive but in a separate partition. The question is though - should I place that partition in the beginning of the drive, or at the end - which part is read faster? I think it's the beginning, but I am not 100% sure.
Am I making sense?
Shen:
I dont think theres any real difference in speed between different areas of the HD. That said I would place it at the beginning, that way you wont get as much fragmentation which will increase access time for other applications a bit.
Also, my knowledge of HDs might be way out of date here, maybe someone can correct me. But dont HDs slow down if they are on the same IDE chain as CD/DVD drives? Might want to take that into consideration and put your HDs together and other drives on the other chain. Although EIDE may have sorted that. I feel old :(
shvarz:
--- Quote ---I dont think theres any real difference in speed between different areas of the HD.
--- End quote ---
Cool.
--- Quote ---That said I would place it at the beginning, that way you wont get as much fragmentation which will increase access time for other applications a bit.
--- End quote ---
It will be a separate partition, so fragmentation does not come into play at all. That's the whole reason to put it on a separate partition.
--- Quote ---But dont HDs slow down if they are on the same IDE chain as CD/DVD drives?
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I think they still do. And yes, I am taking that into account.
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