Steve Easton

I hate to tell you this, but moving / saving / working with files in another partition on the "Same" drive
does not speed up anything.
The only thing it accomplishes is that they're saved if you ever need to reformat the OS partition and
reinstall.

Using a second physical drive for data file storage and also moving the paging file there "Is" a definite
performance advantage.

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Steve Easton



"Joel Dahl" <JoelDahl@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:C4625BB7-8C88-430B-8167-7A4655C544BA@microsoft.com...
>I just bought a new laptop with Windows Vista installed. I have a 120 GB
> hard drive, which I ordered Dell to partition into a 40 GB C drive and an 80
> GB D drive (with my DVD drive being drive E).
>
> So I got the laptop and the partitioning is all done as I requested. Now
> what I want to do with it is to set it up similarly to the way I had my old
> Windows XP machine set up, which was as follows:
>
> I separated my old XP machine into a 17GB C drive, and a 23GB D drive. I
> managed to set up my XP operating system so that the "My Documents" folder
> (and all associated subfolders) was on drive D, while the OS and all
> applications were installed on drive C, but whatever data files I created
> were on drive D. The reason I did this was that I had a lot of data on my
> machine, and having it on the same drive as the OS was slowing the OS down
> substantially, but the OS performed well when all that data was on a separate
> drive.
>
> What I want is to do substantially the same thing with my new Windows Vista
> laptop. I want to have the OS and all installed applications remain on drive
> C, but put my entire user account folder (C:\Users\Joel_T_Dahl) on drive D
> (my 80GB data partition). Or, if I can't do that, I'd like to move just the
> major subfolders of my user account (i.e., "Documents," "Music," "Pictures"
> etc.) onto drive D. I have a lot of music and pictures I want to put into
> those folders, and before I put them into those folders, I want to move those
> folders onto drive D, so that the data doesn't bog down my OS.
>
> I know I could just deliberately save all my data onto drive D, but most
> applications save data into these Vista equivalents of the XP My Documents
> subfolders, and it would be nice not to have those defaults point to a folder
> that's already on drive D (and not to have to change the default save
> directory with each new application I install).
>
> So in sum, I would like for C:\Users\Joel_T_Dahl to become D:\Joel_T_Dahl,
> with all the associated settings within Windows Vista changed so that they
> know what drive path to point to when accessing Joel_T_Dahl and/or any
> associated subfolder.
>
> Or, if I can't move my user account folder off the drive that has the OS,
> I'd like for
>
> C:\Users\Joel_T_Dahl\Documents\
> C:\Users\Joel_T_Dahl\Music\
> C:\Users\Joel_T_Dahl\Pictures
> (etc., etc.)
>
> to become
>
> D:\Documents
> D:\Music\
> D:\Pictures\
> D:\(etc., etc.)
>
> Thanks!
>
> Joel