Partitioned Hard Drive Speed Question

[JC00]

I'm planning to use an 80gb hard drive for one of our PCs in the office. Will running the OS along with other programs run faster in a small partitioned drive than running it on an unpartitioned drive?

[TwoRails]

Not sure I understand what you mean. The drive has to be partitioned in one form or another. Do you mean splitting the drive up into 2 or more partitions? If so, then yes, you can get a little more efficiency because you can more easily keep the drives defragmented with the OS on one logical drive (partition) and programs and data on another logical drive.