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Nov 3^rd, 2009 at 11:34am

DazzleStar Offline
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I have a few questions partitions and cluster sizes. Here is my current partition plan, and the titles explain what they contain (I am going to add a 40GB FSX hard drive with 64K clusters):

I'm not sure about cluster sizes, so if I list my plan, can people advise me?:

System: Default 4K (It has to be this doesn't it?)
Games: 32K?
Programs: 32K?
Media: 64K
Data: 16K?

The final thing I was unsure about was this: I would like to have the documents and settings folder on G:, and I heard you could do this via unattended installation? If anyone could tell me how to do this I would be chuffed! Grin

« Last Edit: Nov 4^th, 2009 at 10:58am by DazzleStar »

My specs:
Dell Dimension 2400
2.66GHz Pentium 4
NVIDIA GeForce 6200 256mb
1gb DDR memory
80gb Seagate hard drive

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Reply #1 - Nov 3^rd, 2009 at 11:35am

DazzleStar Offline
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I forgot to add, are the partition sizes sensible? Things like system I wasn't too sure about, could it be made smaller?

My specs:
Dell Dimension 2400
2.66GHz Pentium 4
NVIDIA GeForce 6200 256mb
1gb DDR memory
80gb Seagate hard drive

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Reply #2 - Nov 5^th, 2009 at 11:34am

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Bump.

My specs:
Dell Dimension 2400
2.66GHz Pentium 4
NVIDIA GeForce 6200 256mb
1gb DDR memory
80gb Seagate hard drive

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Reply #3 - Nov 5^th, 2009 at 7:48pm

NickN Offline
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FSX runs fine... the problem
is you or your system

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partitions for anything other than dead storage are BAD

you are forcing the head of your drive to seek across the drive to get to data.. thats silly

Storing installers and media files and backups is fine to do that. Dont ever do it with programs you want running fast

If you are looking to install games to another partition, do it on a 2nd drive and the 1st physical partition of that drive. 64K Cluster format

forget 8,16,32

its either 4K for the OS drive or 64K for performance read drives

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