Repartition Windows XP on two drives

[Murena]

Hello,
I will replace my current computer but keep my old hard drive, found myself with two discs, Hitachi P7K500 (ancien), Western Digital Caviar Blue 640 (new)

I thought I install Windows XP Home 32 bit on my old and put the swap on the fastest, new, but browsing through the forum to choose my equipment, I saw some post suggest to put the system on the disk the fastest . I have 4 GB of ram and I wonder if it is better

• put the pagefile on the same disk system, using the disk the fastest, based on the fact that Windows will use the swap infrequently
• put the pagefile on the disk and the old system on the disk the fastest, just swap being used, the slow disk will be less visible
• put the pagefile on disk for the fastest and optimize the system on the disk the slower

The posts that I found mentioned the size of the swap or place but on disc, or with huge differences in speed, is identical.

Thank you.

[Solomon]

fragmenting the swap so I think it is better to use it outside the system partition. The easiest way I think for you is to create a small partition on your new drive and put the swap file and the time your browsers cache.
it avoids fragmenting your system
otherwise you SuperSpeed Dataram (fee required) that allows you to use the 1gb of ram that your 32 bit system does not recognize to put the swap file or time (1gb test car may be not enough)

Use your old disk as a backup of your data or to store files that do not require a super access time, simple it is in my opinion more useful and simple.

[Murena]

Thank you
I will make a system partition (30GB), a swap partition (I'm going to reflect the size), and one or two on the rest of the disc.

[Devasis]

you can possibly make a partition for certain applications such as games that take place and can grow with important updates, or that require the speed of access.
You can install small programs / utilities more "close system" genre browser recorder, antivirus, xp ... tuning in the primary partition
for the partition "temporary" you can put 10GB to be comfortable especially if you're processing photo / video. see if you do a lot of processing (eg time photoshop files tend to grow so very important)