Will my computer run faster or better partitioned? It has a 30 gig primary hard drive. If so what size would be good for win98se? Right now I am using 6.2gig.Would it be better to put programs on the partition with windows? Just curious I figured it might defrag and scandisk quicker on a partition and would have less to search on.

No, no difference at all.

Differences in partitioning will make very little difference in speed. But there are important advantages in putting your programs in a separate partition. If you have to format the system drive you can save a lot of info that way. I use tweakui to put 'My Documents', 'Favorites' and my email on another partition also.

hey people ...i have a prob,im fairly new at this computer stuff so bare with me plz,I have a (10 gb) hard drive thats been partitioned , (split in half im told) don't no how it happened maybe i clicked something i shouldn't have,iv'e been reading a bit about it(partitioning),and i was told that having the drive partitioned can be a good thing , But there seem to be nothing in the books i read that will solve this problem i have, so i came in here to ask for you help..... i hope someone out there can help me.my question is ,Q: How does one use the other part of the partitioned drive?,because my computer keeps telling me that i have run out of disc space when downloading, and won't use the other 5 gb's ....iv'e been told that when i download there should be a box that comes up so i can tell the computer where to put the downloaded info ,that don't happen for me, the download just goes to one side of hard drive, if you can help PLZ send me a message on how to fix it.OR if need be how to get my hard drive back to one single drive again.thxs again guys,have a great day.

your right there should be a box to download to any drive unless your other drive is in a differnt file format. you can make it 1 drive by useing partion magic which is the best one all the best