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One way to speed up performance of your hard drive is to partition it in an intelligent way. This also benefits you by keeping your computer more organized. A hard drive reads information faster when it is at the edge of the hard disc. When you put information on the hard drive it starts by writing it to the outside edge and as more space is needed, gradually moving towards the center of the drive. There can be as much as a 40% speed difference between the edge and center of the drive. Thus you want to partition your hard drive so that your paging file and operating system files are on the edge, and more useless stuff such as documents and downloads are on the inside. I partition my 120 Gb Hard Drive like this:
Paging File C: 2 gigs
Windows D: 10 gigs
Applications E: 10 gigs
Games F: 50 gigs
Files: 30 gigs
Downloads (Before I know they're virus-free and not junk) G: 10 gigs
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