does partitioning of the hard disk affect a pc's performance, and in what way?

Answer 1

not really unless you're goingnto use for array.

Answer 2

Partitioning a hard drive forces the logical divisions on the hard drive to be physical as well. (So the database would be on a different part of the drive than the operating system, and other things like that.) In the 80s and 90s, it was common to have several partitions or separate hard drives on the Unix boxes.

It was kind of important for stretching a machine's capabilities in the 90s when hard drives were more expensive. Today, you could just buy another hard drive for tens of dollars.

There are also other reasons (other than performance) to partition:
-- putting more then one operating system on the machine
-- backing up files, creating raid arrays
-- securing an area of the hard drive

Good luck

Answer 3

The Primary purpose of partitioning a hard drive is file management, or setting up multiple OS's. Partitioning can have either beneficial or detrimental effects. I usually recommend two partitions, or if possible two hard drives, one for OS the other for your data and a Ghost of your boot partition/Drive. This method helps increase data security and data resistance to viruses and malware (most of them are too simple to look for multiple drives / partitions).
Now if you have that 2 or more partitions on a drive and you allow windows to set swap files on all the partitions you will notice a performance drop. The reason the heads will have to constantly sweep across a large area on the drive.
One situation that portioning can be used to improve performance is if you have a reverse sectored hard drive. Most hard drives are written with sector zero on the edge of the drive where data moves the fastest. Some SCSI and most laptop drive are opposite. Since modern MS OS’s will not let you define where the swap file is located in a partition you can create a dedicated partition for the primary swap file therefore increasing performance.
My laptop for example
16GB partition OS drive C:, 20MB (yes megabyte) swap file.
60GB for data / user accounts drive D:
1GB Drive F; dedicated windows managed swap file.
This adds a bout 3 seconds to boot up but about a 15% speed boost in windows (for my system, some will not see a boost if they have a large amount of memory). During boot the 20MB file is being accessed therefore the long seek rate increases boot time.

Note: Two hard drives are always better then a one hard drive partitioned.

Answer 4

Harddrive partition was certified to be good in performance in loading you executable file that not partition. It is simple because the media will read all the file where the boot OS was located while the partiion harddrive it was already separate.

Answer 5

No, Partitioning is good to store data. If you need to reload windows, you can leave you data on a separate partition and so you won;t lose it when you reformat.

Answer 6

not unless you partition a really small drive. it can affect the pagefile size and slow down programs (when you have more than one open)