where is best to install?

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My hard drive of 60Gb is devided in two drives of 30 Gb. XP runs on the first
drive.
I'm wondering where's the Best place to install a game that is 1.4 GB big?
Aren't the loading times of the hard drive getting extremely long when I
install the game on the D: drive? Because the hard drive every time has jump
from C: to D: ?
I hope this ain't a stupid question :)
 
I'm sure you'll get several opinions on this, but some games install by
default into the user's directory at C:\Documents and Settings\{UserName} or
at least put your saves in a folder at that location. I would just let the
game install. You've got plenty of space on the two partitions, and if you
do any updates, etc., of the game you wouldn't need to fiddle around with
redirecting the updates.
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corny said:
btw. 5.6Gb is in use on c:

Wouldn't make any noticeable difference.

In theory a drive (at least it used to) a drive is slower reading and
writing near the end of the drive, so depending on where the partitions are
physically on the drive this may have some effect.

The fact that a drive has two partitions won't effect read/write times at
all, it doesn't really have to "switch" because the partition isn't a real
physical thing. It's all 0 and 1s to the drive.

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