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Partitioning Slowdown

post #1 of 8
8/22/03 at 8:43am
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This is more likely a Windows XP issue than a Sager issue, but I had partitioned my 8880 with 2 HDDs as follows.

C: = 40 GB
D: = 20 GB
E: = 15 GB for docs
Z: = 5 GB for Drive Image Image of C drive

Well I couldn't figure out why but after reformatting and setting this up this way I noticed that things were pretty slow. I tried all kinds of things like Defrag, removing programs from startup in MSCONFIG, putting the pagefile.sys on every drive and letting windows manage.

But then for another reason, I decided to move everything on the E drive over to C and same for Z drive and then put them back in the D. So now I have 2 drives each with a 40 GB partition.

Why is it suddenly faster? Not complainging but inquiring.
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post #2 of 8
8/22/03 at 9:29am
Because now the hard drive is acting only as 2, instead of 4.
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post #3 of 8
8/22/03 at 4:01pm
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Originally posted by dyeinbreed
Because now the hard drive is acting only as 2, instead of 4.
I could understand that if all I had was one HDD and it was partitioned into four. But I have 2. The C was all one partition and second is D, E and Z.

But you are saying this is normal behavior?
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post #4 of 8
8/22/03 at 5:25pm
No, it is not. Something is definately up. How "full" are each partition?

I have my C: (60GB) drive split into 3 drives (C, D, E) for windows and it is not any faster/slower than if there was just one... but they aren't too full at the moment (just came from a fresh re-install; I was monkeying with linux).

Now that I am thinking about it, it shouldn't be THAT much of a resource hit having multiple partitions.

Have you run chkdsk and defrag lately? Something is up.

-myrkat
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post #5 of 8
8/22/03 at 7:22pm
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Thanks for responding.

The smallest was about half full (2.5 of 5 GB)
The 10 GB partition was about 3 GB full.
The 20 GB partition was about 10 GB full

Now that they are all one, I have moved the docs back to MyDocuments folder on C and deleted some of the other stuff so the second drive now has only about 5 GB on it.
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post #6 of 8
8/22/03 at 8:18pm
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Originally posted by kpurcell
I could understand that if all I had was one HDD and it was partitioned into four. But I have 2. The C was all one partition and second is D, E and Z.

But you are saying this is normal behavior?
whoops, my mistake, i didnt realize you had 2 drives
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post #7 of 8
8/23/03 at 9:36pm
Defrag all the drives and then see if the slow downs persist.
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post #8 of 8
8/23/03 at 10:39pm
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Originally posted by Wisefish
Defrag all the drives and then see if the slow downs persist.
Let me reiterate. The slow down is now gone. It was present when I had 2 HDD with a total of 4 partitions. The primary was one big 40 GB partition. The secondary was a 20, a 15, and a 5. I used to have it with each drive having a single partition. When I switched to have 3 on the second it slowed way down. Then I turned it back into 1 on each and the slow down went away.

My question was why did this happen. It however is gone and I guess the collective answer is "I (we) don't know." So I will drop it. But thanks for all of your kind attempts. That is why I like reading this board.
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