Having Multiple Partitions Faster?
Jul 25, 2005Does having multiple partitions on a hard drive speed up performance?
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Multiple Partitions On Single Hard Drive
May 14, 2008I currently have 2 partitions on a single hard drive (each one is running xp).The older partition (the one that I want to get rid of) is the primary partition, while the newer one (the one that I want to keep) is the extended partition. Could someone please tell me how to delete the primary partition and make the computer
recognize the extended partition as the primary partition?
Multiple Partitions And Boot - Ntldr Missing
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Faster Way: Software To Boot My PC Faster?
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Sep 29, 2005I realise you've already seen a few queries on this, but I can't find
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