NickN's guide says 'never ever partition a hard drive'.  I always have done because I like to be able to reinstall without worrying about my data, and also because I like to have a separate games OS installation that I can keep clean and simple and not pollute with other software. I was even thinking about a third 'starforce' installation for LOMAC.

So just how damaging is it to performance, and are there strategies  to ameliorate the damage?  I can see that it would be bad to have the heads seeking from OS partition to data partition on the same drive, but what about multiple OS partitions on one drive and data on a second?

Mike

I wonder why this is: it implies that the mere presence of another partition causes a slowdown whether is is being accessed or not.

Sometimes the intuitively obvious is not!

Mike