My computer used to only have local disk C which has a capacity of 74.52 GB. But somethings happened, my PC broke and said they had to cut the memory in half. Now I have local disk C and local disk D. C contains 39 GB while D conatins 35. The start up got slower the one with like The Windows logo and the blue loading bar-like (by the way, I'm Windows XP Home Edition). My whole PC got slower than before it broke. What probably caused it to be slower (not much fragmented files, only less than 10%). They changed something and I forgot what it is.
2007-02-06 21:45:42 · 7 answers · asked by anonymous 4 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
Sounds like they have partitioned your hard drive. The more info you have on one drive then the slower it will get.
I like having my drive partitioned as I can then use one half just as a storage drive. What I do is pop all my music, movies and pictures onto the drive D, leaving drive C just to run the everyday use of the computer. Therefore keeping the main drive clean and fast.
2007-02-06 21:52:15 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hard-drives are primarily used just for permanent storage, but filling it up can indeed affect performance if it hits a really high percentage. One way is that if your computer does not have sufficient RAM (for XP, a minimum of 512MB and advised 1GB; for Vista, double on both counts), your computer might be using part of your hard-drive as a cache for overflow from your small amount of RAM. Fill up the hard-drive and eventually that cache gets constricted. Another way in which it can affect speed is that when you save a file with certain programs, they might need to save the new copy prior to deleting the old copy (rather than just overwriting everything), and if there's less free capacity than the file size, they won't be able to do their job properly. I remember even running into a problem with a server-side e-mail system (it was over ten years ago, with accounts that measured in terms of KB) where I couldn't even send e-mail to the trash bin because I didn't have enough free capacity to write a second copy of any single e-mail long enough to actually get rid of it.
My guess, though, is that they just turned down the setting on how much hard-drive space your computer is able to use as virtual RAM. V-RAM is always slower than real RAM, but not having it when you need it is even slower than having to use it.
2007-02-06 22:18:36 · answer #2 · answered by the_amazing_purple_dave 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The speed of your PC do not come down by the usage of disk space in the HD.It has no connection with it.For your system to perform better,place the paging file of your PC on the C drive.Then your system will boot much more faster...
2007-02-06 21:56:05 · answer #3 · answered by mizzylad 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
computer got slower then we think about
- inscreasing RAM
- virus adware/spyware
- then orthers
My Computer: 80GB HDD, 512MB RAM, P IV, Win XP, after 6 months i put 512MB RAM then it goes smoothly
I just make C drive 5.85GB (1.5GB free) and put all program files there. Other type of files i put in D
I run antivirus and remove cache, unwanted, unuse files weekly
2007-02-06 22:25:47 · answer #4 · answered by Jalse 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ways to speed up your PC http://www.make-my-pc-faster.com
2015-05-10 13:40:03 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
This will slow your computer down for sure.
2007-02-06 21:56:20 · answer #6 · answered by Doodlebug 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes . sometimes it affect the speed of your computer.
2007-02-07 23:02:29 · answer #7 · answered by vinaya p 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋