Folder capacity ?? on XP

[Abarbarian]

At the moment I partition my hdd into five partitions. One for the OS and the rest for data.My understanding was that if I put the OS at the front of the drive and the least used files eg: movies etc on the last partition then this would give me the fastest access and also help to keep defragmentation down to a minimum.

I'm doing a swap around and wondered if my present system is ok ??

Am I just as well having two partitions, OS on one and data on the second. ??

If I do the above can I put say 8 to 10 GB of files in one folder ???

Will the above make the pc slower and need more defragment management ??

 

[muckshifter]

With NTFS there is no need to muck about with partitions ... with two, however, you can "re-install" to C drive and it should not affect the data. That is a theory I have never tested.

 

[Abarbarian]

Ta Mucks. So I can have me folders as big as I like ????

I have used Acronis to do a reinstall of the "C" drive. It worked and did not affect any of the other partitions.

 

[muckshifter]

So I can have me folders as big as I like ????

Folders grow as you put more things into them, my picture folder continues to grow, if you mean hard drive partitions, then yes, have em as large as you like.

I wouldn't do that for windows earlier than XP