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double nine
Aug 8, 2013

I have an old computer with a standard non-ssd hard drive. This hard drive is devided into 2 partitions. Now on both of these partitions there is an operating system installed (don't ask, there are many things that went wrong over time using this computer), which over time eventually both got windows 7 on it.

I don't know which one is situated closer to the center of the hard drive and thus is more optimized. What tool would be able to show me the physical location on the hard drive of both partitions?

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Alereon
Feb 6, 2004

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The easiest would just be to do a read benchmark.

Khablam
Mar 29, 2012

double nine posted:

I don't know which one is situated closer to the center of the hard drive and thus is more optimized. What tool would be able to show me the physical location on the hard drive of both partitions?
Windows 7's Disk Management tool will list all the partitions on your disks. For each physical disk, the chart runs left to right, from inner to outer on the disk. i.e. the partition on the left will be faster.
A read-benchmark will give you the same answer in all likelihood.

HDtune will give you a performance curve for your drive, letting you know if it's worth the effort.

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