Swap File Size, Place & other Partitioning Adviceclipped by: Djiezes
when adding a 2nd Hard drive to your non RAID system, the best thing you can do is create a small 4-8 Gig Partition (let's call it D:\) right at the beginning of the new HD. Change the virtual memory location then from C to D and set the minimum and maximum to the same size (say 2048 MB).
While you are at it, might as well reset the environment variable so that temp files are also set to utilize the D partition. Next to the swap file, these are the files most accessed by windows.Since both the swap and temp files are "temporary" files, you will gain not advantage from the file protections offered NTFS and can go with the speedier (especially with large files) FAT32 for the D Partition. This makes housekeeping easy also as it's very easy to find and delete temp files.
Then behind ya D partition, allocate E:\ for the thing you want to go the fastest (probably Games), then F:\ for Programs, G:\for Data and maybe H:| for backups.
Tags: partition, howto, hard drive, swap, games, programs, os, fat32, ntfs, computers
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