If you do a lot, or a little ripping and burning you should partition about
a 20 GB or so on the fastest Hdd in your system. Thats the only thing you
should use that 20GB partition for, ripping and burning.
You will burn faster and the the 20GB partision will defrag much quicker.
Makes all those jobs somewhat quicker. This of course greatly reduces the
fragmention caused by ripping and burning to only one large Hdd thats also
used for everything else you do. That will go a long way to speeding up your
system.

H Brown
"rive0108" <guest@unknown-email.com> wrote in message
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>
> Many people are having a problem in regards to either a slow boot up, or
> that windows is slow to load Programs.
> I am using a SATA RAID 0 config, and even with 4GB of ram This can
> result in heavy fragmentation over two drives, and a slow system-
> especially after recording tv on MCE or any other activity that writes
> large files to disk.
>
> Deframenting speeds up the system dramatically, BUT using the default
> defragmenter doesn't defrag file fragments bigger than 64MB or even
> include them in the fragmentation statistics
>
> When you have file fragments for one program scattered all over your
> hard drive, it takes time to recompile them in order to execute the
> program/data in question. Consolidating all file fragments regardless of
> their size will result in faster access and execution. Now multiply this
> by hundreds of thousands of individual file fragments that the cpu must
> recompile to execute in proper sequence per Windows or User command at
> the same time. I have seen the GUI show 0% fragmentation where the -w
> command will show 10% fragmentation on a 640GB SATA RAID 0 drive- thats
> alot of little individual file fragments scattered over a modest size
> drive...
>
> But this is only part of the problem, now add into the equation file
> system errors and bad sectors on the disk...and even the fastest system
> will slow to a crawl over time.
>
> I strongly recoomend not using registry cleaners-unless you know what
> you are doing-otherwise, chances are very good that the Corruption it
> may cause will require Windows re-install to fix.
>
> Here are two steps to a faster, better performing system.
> note- these steps will perform a full defrag (defrag c: -w), and will
> file file system errors and attempt recovery of bad disk sectors.
>
> [url]http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/165576-how-make-vista-more-responsive-faster.html?filter[/url]
>
>
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> rive0108[/color]

The only problem with a 20GB HDD partition for Windows, is you severely
impair Vista's Shadow Storage. This will provide almost no previous versions
to restore to (shadow Coy) in Business versions and up, and the ability to
Perform a System restore In all versions.

It is strongly suggested to create regular data backups and images of
Windows if setting Windows Partition to such a small size. Otherwise you will
be re-installing Vista when you could have simply restored.

I personally have used Restore and shadow copy many times. I also image my
620GB RAID 0 array every 6 months, and perform Weeekly File backups.