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[Seran]

But Finally upgrading to Windows 7 from vista.  Was able to secure a $15 (legit) copy of Ultimate through microsoft 'expert' program.  I guess we happen to sell one Windows Phone 7 phone, so they let us do their training.

I've always just dumped my OS and everything on one giant partition, but I'm reading that a smaller one for the OS (set up first) will be on the outer edge of the platters and therefore faster.  What I read points towards using like 50 gig just to be safe, then partition the rest for installing apps, etc..

Any advice?  I don't have the disc yet so I have time to look into it.

[Teo McDohl]

Honestly, don't partition it. If you had two HDDs, sure.  But no need to split the partition.  On servers, we split the HDD into several partitions so that we can easily keep track of data, as well as ensure DBs like SQL and Exchange don't get corrupted by a defrag.  But for a workstation, there's no real reason to do it.  You don't gain any performance advantage, really.

[Seran]

Figured, and i usually would just reformat instead of defraging anyways.