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Its better if i place fs9 in a small partition? (Read 187 times)

Aug 22^nd, 2004 at 9:57pm

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I read from other fellows that they had instaled fs9 in a partition in hard drives, what are the benefits doing that?
im know how clusters get damage in the divide setion of the h drive but if my programs runs better im able to take my risk..any answer from the expert ill presiate it

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Reply #1 - Aug 23^rd, 2004 at 4:09am

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I'm no great authority on this but here's my opinion. Installing programs like the M$ sims might be better on a separate partition from your OS. Going online for even a few minutes every day can soon fragment the HD. With the large HDs commonly used these days a Defrag can take some considerable time. It's quicker & more convenient to Defrag a partition regularly rather than the complete HD. The ideal situation would be to use a separate HD for this purpose. Unlike all previous versions of FS/CFS, FS9 uses some files (like fs9.cfg) in locations other than its own directory. I don't know how this would affect anything.

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Reply #2 - Aug 23^rd, 2004 at 8:23am

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Hi hagar,I already have 2 drives 80 gigabytes each the second one are Music,videos,its half used but nonoperating system at all,how about if i partition the 2nd one,will it work,so what do you thing,i don't care if you are an authority or no,your opinion is what i care my friend Wink

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Reply #3 - Aug 23^rd, 2004 at 8:54am

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Hi Alrot. I have 2 hard drives on my old machine. The biggest drive is partitioned so in effect I have 3. I've installed the earlier M$ sims to all drives without a problem. In some cases I've had more than one install* of CFS2 on separate drives which all ran quite happily. (*I've never tried this with FS9 & doubt it would work.)

I was always a little wary of partitioning a drive that is already in use.

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Reply #4 - Aug 23^rd, 2004 at 9:20am