How exactly do you do this? ive read posts about it may be easier on the hard drive for loading and stuff. How do i make a different partition for just flight sim? i only have one hard drive, so is this still possible? would i notice better smoothness. right now i have AMD 64 3000+ 1gig Kingston DDR 400 160gb seagate hd, Nvidia 5900FX video card(this is whats holding my system back)i consider my pc pretty fast, yet even with PMDG on VC i am plauged with the gauges being so delayed, ive tried the refresh rates and everything..what do you all do to battle this? everything on the outside is running very smoooooth. id just like to get over this hump..would a separate partition be the answer to this?thx Stehpen

this will get put into the hardware forum once a mod see's it.But i think you will have to go through the process of installing windows, and when it asks you to delete, repair, or create a partition, i think you would need to create a new one. Then again, im not shure.. So i woldnt try anything untill some one like jaap shares some advice. :)

very sorry i thought i was posting in the hardware forum...is there a way i can move it there?

Hi,Since you are creating a partition on the same physical disk, I don't think you will gain much performance increase, if you gain some at all.It is still the same disk.It will only be sensible if you have another disk. Then you can have FS installed on Disk-1 and your Swapfile on disk-2 for example.Also with 2 disks you can install 2 times WinXP (multi boot), and have a specific WinXP version for FS and the other for your daily work (incl. virus scanner etc)It is also possible to have multi-boot on 1 disk, but then again the yield is less.My 2 euri cents.

dont worry about it. Mods will deal with it. :) accidents happen bro.. haha.. no worries

I have FS on its own partition on a separate hard drive. I can't honestly say that I see any improvement at all in performance of the sim.KP

"I have FS on its own partition on a separate hard drive. I can't honestly say that I see any improvement at all in performance of the sim."And it would be the same way if one were to put FS on it's own partition on the drive where the OS resides.Partitioning will do nothing to enhance the performance of the sim.Suggest that the sim be placed on the same drive as the OS... putting the sim on it's own partition of that drive may make housekeeping and maintenance of the sim a bit easier (YMMV). If the system has a second drive the Virtual Memory (Swap File) can should be put on it. I actually made a partition on my second drive for the VM. The rest of my second drive holds all my non-gaming apps. All games (as is the OS) are on my 74Gb drive (unpartitioned). Works a charm.Greg

It is possible to repartition, but I recommend getting something like Partition Magic to do it. In particular, to manipulate the boot partition you need to boot from CD or floppy.I prefer to place apps in one volume, and downloads/data in one volume. I the past I have placed the swap file in its own volume, but I'm not currently set up that way.The main problem is that many apps try to put files into the boot partition, no matter how you try to configure them. So you need a boot volume that is big enough to handle extra files than just the OS.A secondary problem is that even though MS is trying to get away from the "drive letter" concept to a logical volume concept, the "drive letter" assignment issues remain.scott s..