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Am I able to partition unused portions of my exisiting HD?

I wanted to create a seperate partition for the virtual memory without reformatting my HD. I am using Windows XP.

ETSA

use partition magic. or just buy another hdd and put it on there.

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dave597

I was looking for a more cost effective method....eh....cheaper....

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ETSA

Virtual memory is used off of every partition, you are going to have a page file on the C drive no matter what, you can't get rid of it. I see no reason at all to create a separate partition for virtual memory.

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Bobo

u probably wont get that big an imperovement in speed depending on how much ram you have and what hard drive you have

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dave597

So the entire HD doesn't fragment as easy...

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ETSA

How does fragmentation have anything to do with page files/virtual memory? Putting in another partition would make the drive fragment faster, because it would have less space to put files in.

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Bobo

Yes, but defraging it would be much quicker as well, and cause the large portion to not fragment as much....

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ETSA

just defrag often, i reccommend diskeeper, and also defrag the page file if needed

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dave597

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Originally Posted by dave597

just defrag often, i reccommend diskeeper, and also defrag the page file if needed

The page file is part of the C drive

But if you put another partition to use as the page file, defragging it wouldn't do any good, because it is used as RAM; hence the data is constantly in and out of the hdd.

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