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EmJay,

(A quick recap) What the people using multiple partitions are doing is
*simulating* multiple single partitioned drives just like your setup.

The fact that you normally don't delete from drives D and E is the reason
only drive C is fragmented. Also when you move the stuff from C to D as
keepers, you normally do that soon after you download the stuff so, your
pulling it off the top of the drive (FAT), thus reducing the amount of
fragmentation to C. This is exactly why some people *are* using partitions
besides the use of multiple OS's.

In addition to partitions, I myself use DoubleSpace to simulate partitions
and use it solely for the purpose of temporary files (temp folder, temporary
internet files, CDRW cache, etc.). I also benefit from compression of all
the html files that gets placed there automatically by IE. Since the DS
drives get purged occasionally, I never need to defrag them. I put the
DoubleSpace drives on before I installed anything else so their already at
the front of the drive for fastest access, another simple fact some would
dispute besides using DoubleSpace at all.

Actually with my setup when I run defrag even now after 3 years (1154 days
ago) I still only have 1% fragmentation, so I always press cancel. I might
get concerned about it when it reaches 2% though. :)

Since I do the housekeeping on the machine I use at work (single drive with
single partition) I know for a fact, nothing gets deleted ever. By adding
data to multiple databases and new file creation only, I can tell you 7%
fragmentation over 30 days is quite common. I would hate it see what any of
the unmaintenanced machines look like. Too bad I'm not the comptroller, I'd
change that real quick.

EmJay.. wrote in message <37C3C594.3007A932@ar.com.au>...
>I would like to add my personal observations on fragmentation to this
>thread:- I have 3 hd's, all of which are using FAT32. C:=2.6Gb;
>D:=1.2Gb; E:=4.3Gb, all are single drives(no partitions).
>C: drive is my main drive, o/s, prog files, temp storage of d/loaded
>files etc. D: is my "keep stuff from internet" drive, and E: is my games
>drive!
>Just did a quick Defrag check on each drive, and after 6mths+,
>C: is 1% fragmented,
>D: is 0% fragmented,
>E: is 0% fragmented,
> Now as I am d/loading and moving between drives anything from 5-20mb a
>day, as well as deleting a fair bit of unwanted stuff, I must say that
>fragmentation on a single drive with no extra partitions on it will take
>some time to affect the performance of the system,yes?