have a 120gb C drive and a seperate drive of 80gb. If you were me would you install FS onto the seperate one?

Hi,I do, and I would.Hope this helps,Jimhttp://www.hifisim.com/Active Sky V6 Development Team Active Sky V6 Proud SupporterHiFi Beta TeamRadar Contact Supporter: http://www.jdtllc.com/AirSource Member: http://www.air-source.us/FSEconomy Member:http://dot.kelder.net:8080/fseconomy/

It depends. I would defintitely install FS9 in a seperate partition, along with other programs and games. Of course, it would also be good to dedicate a seperate partition for FS9.If I had your setup, I would partition as follows:30GB OS90GB Programs/Games60GB Documents20GB Pagefile and room for temporary downloads, extracts, etcIt is all about smart paritioning and also anticipating the worst. In case HDD-A fails, you still have your important documents. If you want to re-install the OS, just wipe HDD-A without any data loss (except the chore of reinstalling programs). It is also easier and faster to defrag, along with some stability and (albeit minor) speed improvements.Good luck!Pat

I have FS9 and all my add-ons on thier own partition. I t makes it easier to keep track of all those add-ons and maintain the sim.Scott :-)

>have a 120gb C drive and a seperate drive of 80gb. If you>were me would you install FS onto the seperate one? I would say that depends on the performence of the harddrives. I have a 160 Gb SATA drive and a 60 Gb IDE drive. I have everything on the 160 Gb drive since it's faster than the 60 Gb.One time I had the OS on the 60 Gb and FS on the 160 Gb. After changing to my current config I have far less problems HD induced stutters.

hi chaps - thanks for your feedback. I have gone ahead and have not partitioned my drives at all. On my new setup i simply have C drive 120gb with O/s on. The Pagefile is as default. My FS is on 80gb drive on its own. I dont quite understand why but i am seeing worse FPS than on my last setup! i have installed my uk2000 scenery, flight environment and ground enviroment plus all the little utilities i have found on the avsim libraries over the years again and then applied my old aircraft folder which includes all my Project AI traffic, copied over my PAI_traffic.bgl and now if i try to fly past airports i noticed that with my view focused onto he airport the fps drops to 4-7 fps! i am tempted to restore my old setup but i fail to see why it is slower...any one point out why this might be. My old system was a 40gb ide os only c drive, 80gb second ide disk - fs was on the c drive and page file i had moved to its own partition from the c drive. I tried the same old fs config tricks that i learnt from these forums but these didnt really seem to impact at all.

Are both drives on the same IDE channel?To make any good use out of two HD's they should be on seperate channels.