Partiotioning my 2 twin pair of SATAII's

[UK1nation]

lease: lease:

HP Pavilion Intel Pentium 4 H.T. 3,6Ghz - 800mhz FSB (intel 061/601)
4x 512 DDR2 533MHZ ram,
2x Hitatchi Deskstar 160GB SATAII, (drive0 Master+slave)
2x Samsung spinpoint 'SP2504c' 250GB SATAII.(drive1 master + slave)
Geforce 7800gtx,
Realtek Digital in/out 7.1 audio
hp lightscribe burner
LG secure dvd multi burner

anyway, i want to move around the windows file system so i dont mix up pics with music or video's....... im sure the PC would have an easier job indexing the lot??
i edited a rough design of what exactly im looking to do.... so please take the time to look...and please help!!

CLICK ON IMAGE...THEN AGAIN ONCE REDIRECTED TO GET THE FULL SIZE PC
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[b-man1]

keep in mind that multiple partitions on a single drive does not really increase performance. you gain performance by how many physical drives you are using for dedicated tasks. Multiple partitions will help organize and to a degree, protect against some viruses, certain types of corruption, etc.

FP has a good partition scheme going...search for his thread on that or wait for him to post about it here.

i have a simpler partitioning pattern...i usually do this:

C: OS and "common" applications (AV, Adobe Reader, etc)
D: Apps
E: Data (photos, music, documents)
F (and beyond): Archives (backups)

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[UK1nation]

i understand what your saying...actually makes a lot of sense to me.... just so im on the right track a physical drive is obviously the hard drive, ive heard of changing the documents folder as too release some of the presure on the OS keeping track of it all.......

i saw your config... but they may not apply to me....... in more detail:

Photo Album = 70GB approx - reason for it having a designated partition.
C:my docs: my pictures = 5gb - sort of halfway house for pic files
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Music = 220GB approx - also why i gave it its own space as its more of an archive (can be dormant for long periods as i need to sort out the crap from the crap...)
c: Docs: my music = 8gb mostly used for favourite tracks..speedy to enque
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Videos - 90gb approx - is used for making 'trying' (misserably) at editing our mini-dv cam vids of our children 4 sending home to my family & friends in the UK - always worried about these creation clips/files.... as ive noticed when i 1st started editing years ago that the timing (sound+vision) was all out of proportion.

like i said i have 2x 160gb - 2x 250GB + hp media drive 160gb (but that has my carp fishing website info pics tackle info....its my main hobby you see.

[FlyingPenguin]

Changing the location of the Docs folder doesn't improve performance, but I do relocate my docs folder in case of failure of the boot partition and to make it easier to image the boot partition. It also makes defragging faster and simplet. My methodology is explained in detail here: http://www.pcabusers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=46514

Basically the OS and apps are all in drive C which is a fast 80Gb Raptor (I used to keep the apps in a separate partition but it really doesn't help and actually causes more drive thrashing). Then I have a 500Gb drive divided into several partitions: Data (and I mean ALL data including Documents folder) is on one partition, games are all on their own partition, then I have a big scratch drive for temp files and a video partition for video editing.

I have Acronis True Image setup to image the C drive to an external HDD on a weekly schedule automatically and I disable System Restore to improve performance and since it's redundant. Anything goes wrong I can just restore the last good image, and since it's only the C partition which is no bigger than 17Gb right now, it takes 5 minutes to image it and a little longer to restore it.

It's easy to relocate your Docs folder - just right click on "My Documents" and select properties. There will be an option to move it. If you have Vista or Win7 you can do that with all your personal folders. XP expects to find all your personal folders inside the Docs folder but you can re-assign some of those using TweakUI.