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I just got an E-Mail from Microsoft, specially for me!
Cool huh, here it is (or actualy just the end part, which is the relevant one)
Quote:You are receiving this message because you are a valued MSN Hotmail customer, If you have questions about the MSN privacy policy, please read our privacy statement.
Ohhh........ *feels important*
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Quote:There are read heads on each platter on a hard drive. The fact that a partition is spread amongst platters is completely irrelevant...just like virtually everything else you've said in this thread, TBBQ.
Don't dismiss facts so quickly
Quote:If you had to reformat your hdd and reinstall two OSes on seperate drives, then you are the suckiest OS installer this side of Steve Jobs.
No, I installed them on individual harddisks and I found the perfomance was better than on a partitioned drive.
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TBBQ, I am sure that the prformance gain was due to the reinstallation and not the fact that you put them on different HDD's.
If I pust a text document on one of my partitions, it does NOT make my computer (OS) slower.
You can try it yourself, just create a prog that spawns a 2gb file or something on a different partition then the current OS (And swapfile)
Reboot, and note the time.. If your computer boots slower... then you've done something wrong and deserve a beating... liar...
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Exactly. Thing about this: if you install two OSs in the same drive, different partitions, and you boot one of them, the another one has nothing to do.
If you install two OSs in the same partition (you can do this with Windows NT, 2K, XP or 2003), and boot one of them, the another one is just a folder with files. How could that affect to performance?
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Nathan: i dont know how it should affect performance but it's a fact that my pc speeded up after I did separate installations
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Like I've said, the speedup was due to the reinstallation, NOT the fact that you installed them on different drives.
There is no way that a file, existing on your drive, can affect the performance of your OS.
The only possible way I could think of is if the file made the OS fragmented, so the drive would do a lot of seeking.
But even so, the speed increase/decrease would be minimal, as the OS files aren't accessed that much.
