What is the effect of disk partitioning on the computer performance?

Answer 1

This will always cause a debate. Some people say none, or negligable, but others do it religously. What this does in practice is line up all the data for files together and in order and closest to the front (fastest part) of the hard drive. This keeps the hard drive from having to go all over the hard drive to read a single file, in theory making it more efficient. I personally believe it is a good thing to do occasionally if anything to keep your hard drive from having to work so hard and prolonging it's life. It probably does cause increased performance for loading large files or huge amounts of data into memory (i.e. big games), but I don't think it would be as big a boost in performance as say doubling your RAM from 512 to 1GB.

Answer 2

Partitioning was previously used for keeping OS in bootable section (That is where the heads of HDD are when starting) and
keeping other data which was not regularly used or backups in other logical drives. Now a days partitioning is only for multiple
operating systems like one can have Win98,XP,ME or LINUX..
Now newer OS have better FAT and drive organisation whereas
in old days it was user responsibility to CHKDISK then defrag it
for optimum performance. With XP,ME or 2K systems FAT32 and NTFS systems files are organised much better and OS do
keep the files in optimum format so there is no much difference.
Also now HDDs have too much buffer capacities and data transfer speeds have increased tremendously. So obiviousy there is going to be not much difference with P4- 3GHz system
as compared to 486DX system.
I normally use C: drive for my prime OS and other drives for
( I have upto K: with now 80GB drives) other OS and some drives
for all backups and CDs copied for fast installations. Also in one
small 1GB drive I keep important docs in zipped form so that they arent affected by virus.
Lastly as it was in older system there is still in FAT32 and NTFS systems the cluster size. If you use a drive with more than 8GB capacity then cluster size increases from 4KB to 32KB. This will again increase the disk wastage and also time for going to other cluster which are bigger in size.

Answer 3

No clue. But I doubt you will notice any difference at all. Fact is, many people like to use a partition exclusively for their data files, and partitioning works great for this purpose.

Answer 4

your computer will slow down on the normal speed

Answer 5

I DON'T KNOW