how to partition drive?

[r0cker]

thansk for reading this, i am trying to squeeze the last bit of life out of my system and just wondered what partioning drives is. i get the impression its a way u can make yr hard drive funcion like 2 virtual drives so u get better performance like having a seperate drive for audio. if anyone could let me know how to do this i would be grateful.
cheers,
alistair

[StiffyMcP]

Sorry dude,

Partitioning drives won't increase performance in ProTools. I believe the idea is to have two drives to read/write simultaneously and/or keep the audio drive's head going through the audio without having to read something in the "system" area of the drive. That is what increases the disk transfer performance.

John.

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[r0cker]

thanks for you reply. hopefully i wont hav to worry about these things shortly.
cheers,
alistair

[ReniuR]

Don't bother partitioning. For this kind of work, unless you have two OS's and you want to run them both off one drive, it won't help anything.

Good Luck