Faster installs w/partitions?

[R1ohsorry]

I recently partitioned my master drive into 3 virtual drives.

1 for the OS

1 for applications and software

1 for games

When i went to install my games i noticed that it went a whole lot faster.

Anyone think its the partitions? or could it be the recent installation of XP = (

ps. i dotn like XP but 2000pro doesnt cut it for me anymore.

[rpertusio]

Interesting.

I wonder if the block allocation size changes when you partition the drives... (your OS might have formatted your partitions so that the file pieces are much smaller. Smaller chunks may help you out in performance)

If you are seeing slow install on one OS, and faster install on another OS, it is possible your IDE or CD-ROM drivers are 'better' for a specific OS. (i.e., the data is read from the CD faster..)

Otherwise, I don't really have a clue why it would have installed faster

- rp

[muno]

If it's fresh install, the drive isn't fragmented thus disk access is faster.

[R1ohsorry]

yea it did kinda slow downa bit

[MrPurple]

muno is right.
Fresh install will always run faster in everything you do.
You should defreag your drive once in a while and clean up your registry to try to boost up preformance.

Another thing is you should run anti-spyware software like adaware and spybot.