Hi good people of this forum,I just got a new hard drive on which I plan to reinstall windows 7 64bit and FSX on. The question is should I make a partition for FSX alone? (on the same disc) So that windows and all the usual programs are on there own part of the the drive and fsx on it's own part? Or just one big partition.Thanks,Martin

If you asking about performance... Just one big partition. You will not gain anything performance wise by two partitions on a single driveI would split the partition if you want to have two "drives". That way when/if you want to reinstall the OS, you can backup everything to one partition, and just format the OS partition.

Keeping them on different partitions might speed up defragging tho

never partition one drive into multiple

If you were to split the drive into two equal parts the second partition is going to be much slower than the first because partitions are created from the outside in. The outer part of an HD spins faster than the inner part due to angular momentum and you will actually see that second partition perform slower.I would not partition but do make sure you install FSX to its own folder and not the Program Files or Program Files (x86) location. Vista/7 do some funky permissions things to older programs like FSX when they're in that folder.

Thanks guys for the respones :) One last question. I've overclocked my cpu a little should I set it back when installing windows and fsx or can I just leave things as is? Is there such thing as NickN's guide for win7? I've been seaching and all I could find is the obvious things such as disabling UAC, aero theme etc@ Ryan, That's how propellers and fan blades is also limited, but that's due to the speed of sound. Actually a hard drive spins pretty close to.....actually neither N1 or N2...hahaha......100% N1= 5175 RPM - 100% N2 = 14460 RPM. Thanks

Here is the win7 guide http://www.simforums.com/forums/topic34141_post198187.html#198187