Your windows partition is likely to change a lot due to creation and deletion of temporary files, internet browsing etc. so that will become fragmented. I have my media files on a seperate partition because they change slightly LESS frequently. I also have a seperate partition for apps. Well it's like this:
hard disk 1:
C: Windows 2000
D: Applications
hard disk 2:
G: Games
H: Personal files
I: Media
J: Windows 2000 swap file
K: DOS
J: Windows 98
There is a good reason for having your swap file on a separate hard disk: the slowest part in hard disk reading is moving the reading heads. So if the swap's on a seperate hard disk, the heads aren't continually moved between the place on the disk where your apps data is and where your swap data is since on disk 1 could be your apps and disk 2 could be your swap so both can be read at once.
Another trick as stated, is to put the swap file at the start of a disk since reading there is the quickest for some reason I don't quite know
Anyway, the point of partitioning is that you can keep groups of files that change with the same regularity on the same position and so you can defrag each partition seperately. It also helps organisation. So have your swap file on its own partition at the start of the 2nd hard disk for best performance
[ 06-07-2004, 07:21 PM: Message edited by: Vaskez ]