15.09.2009, 04:55
Dont see the point in using the old slow hard drive to have the game running of. as it would run much faster on the new drive under the D:/.
And rather use the old hard drive to have a copy of the IL2 .
Id have 3 patitions atleast on the new drive. C:/-D:/ and E:/
C=Winxp size aprox 50 gb. D= Games size around 2-300gb and finally the E= Downloads.mp3. and other stuff that you also may have a backup of on the old drive.
This way you can defragment the hard drive partitions fast and only the one you need to defragment you use the last partition as this is usually on the inner end of the plates and therefor have the least performance of the entire disk.
If you havent tried it the google smartdefrag its a free program that defragments your harddrive and you can choose wich and what partitions to defragment. the more often you do it the faster it is done. i myself do it every time ive done any changes like deleting or adding stuff. so usually its done in minutes.
In my opinion your old slow hard drive is only usable as a backup for or to have stuff you arent running on the computer.
but hey.. do a test and clock the loding times. if you buy a new good drive i would be suprized if the game loads faster from the old drive!
Anyhow good luck!
And rather use the old hard drive to have a copy of the IL2 .
Id have 3 patitions atleast on the new drive. C:/-D:/ and E:/
C=Winxp size aprox 50 gb. D= Games size around 2-300gb and finally the E= Downloads.mp3. and other stuff that you also may have a backup of on the old drive.
This way you can defragment the hard drive partitions fast and only the one you need to defragment you use the last partition as this is usually on the inner end of the plates and therefor have the least performance of the entire disk.
If you havent tried it the google smartdefrag its a free program that defragments your harddrive and you can choose wich and what partitions to defragment. the more often you do it the faster it is done. i myself do it every time ive done any changes like deleting or adding stuff. so usually its done in minutes.
In my opinion your old slow hard drive is only usable as a backup for or to have stuff you arent running on the computer.
but hey.. do a test and clock the loding times. if you buy a new good drive i would be suprized if the game loads faster from the old drive!
Anyhow good luck!