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Poll Results: How Often do you Reformat?

 
  • 14% (17)
    Never
  • 54% (63)
    Once or Twice a year
  • 14% (17)
    3 or 4 times a year
  • 6% (8)
    5 or 6 times a year
  • 1% (2)
    7 or 8 times a year
  • 4% (5)
    9 or 10 times a year
  • 1% (2)
    11 or 12 times a year
  • 0% (1)
    I do it everytime I have to reboot! (more than 12 times/year)
115 Total Votes  
post #21 of 32
5/9/05 at 12:38am
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Originally Posted by gilgalasfv
IMO yes. My first partition is for swap and temp files only. That way it decrease the fragmentation speed on the other partitions. The twice is for windows and appli i always install. That way when i want to reinstall the system i only have to format this one and make a ghost. The third and wider is for everything, and the last one is the ghost of the system partition.
Putting the page file on a different partition than the OS is just about the worst thing you can do for paging performance. The drive will have to switch back and forth between the two partitions whenever it needs to go to the page file. Putting the page file on the same partition as the OS will minimize seek times when the disk needs to access the page file.
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post #22 of 32
5/9/05 at 12:43am
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Originally Posted by Woland
Putting the page file on a different partition than the OS is just about the worst thing you can do for paging performance. The drive will have to switch back and forth between the two partitions whenever it needs to go to the page file. Putting the page file on the same partition as the OS will minimize seek times when the disk needs to access the page file.
With the caveat that if you use another drive on another IDE or SATA channel, it should actually improve performance.
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post #23 of 32
5/9/05 at 12:54am
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Originally Posted by Revenent
With the caveat that if you use another drive on another IDE or SATA channel, it should actually improve performance.
Sure, but that's not what it sounds like gilgalasfv is doing. If you have an extra hard drive around and that disk offers comparable performance to the drive that your OS is on then you will see a slight performance increase from putting the page file on a different disk. If that other drive is slower than the drive your OS is on, i.e., lower areal density or lower RPM, paging performance will probably be worse. Putting your page file on the same disk as your OS, but a different partition, is the worst case scenario as far as paging performance is concerned.

And all SATA drives are independent; there is no sharing of channels. They don't share bandwidth--it's a point-to-point protocol.
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post #24 of 32
5/9/05 at 12:56am
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Originally Posted by Woland
And all SATA drives are independent; there is no sharing of channels. They don't share bandwidth--it's a point-to-point protocol.
Yes, my bad there - improper placement of adjectives and punctuations.
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post #25 of 32
5/9/05 at 3:54am
@Woland :

On my desktop the pagefile partition is on a different disk on a different ide channel. As it worked well i used the same thing but all on one disk in my current notebook. It's a fact it's slower than the dual HDD config but i thought it was due to all the files on the same HD.
I'll try putting the page on the system partition the next time to see how it goes.
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post #26 of 32
5/10/05 at 1:39pm
I'm totally confused with these partitions now!

How do I know in which partition is my page file?

For example I have a single 200gb hard drive in my desktop. I have an 8 gb partition for Windows + Office and the rest (192gb) is for all my programs. Where is my page file in this case? (Actually I don't even know what page file is... )

If I have only a 60gb hard drive in my notebook is it worth to have several partitions?

To be honest I don't like partitions because I've heard somewhere that you have to have at least 1gb free space on each partition otherwise it would negatively effect overall performance. Is this true at all?

Please guys help me out... I feel totally stupid.
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post #27 of 32
5/10/05 at 3:16pm
It should be on the same partition as windows if you did not do anything specific to it. To verify it, go look in the "system" part of the control pannel. You will find it in the "advanced" tab by clicking on performance options then change.

As for the need of many partitions, i would said it depends of your behaviour, the frequency you reinstall your system, install and uninstall apps ...
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post #28 of 32
5/10/05 at 8:54pm
If you keep a tidy system and don't install lots of crap-ware, there really is little need to reformat... unless you screw something up or get hit with a major virus or trojan.

I simply do not have the time to reformat often... I have some systems running since the initial release of Windows XP and have not noticed any significant degredation in performance...
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post #29 of 32
5/10/05 at 9:24pm
Instaed of a reformat. Have anyone used a Registry cleaning program and to what effect?
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post #30 of 32
5/10/05 at 10:18pm
3-4 times a year. When I feel that my computer is slow, I format it.
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post #31 of 32
5/12/05 at 1:25pm
Is it true that you have to have at least a 1 gb free space on each partition otherwise system performance may get worse?

If not, I don't see why not to have several partitions...
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post #32 of 32
5/13/05 at 2:06pm
Any ideas about partitions? (see question above)
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