Best partition procedure for OSX speed

When my new MBP comes in I want to partition the 320 drive into a 40 gig for Vista, a 30 gig for scratch, +/or alternate start up disc, and the rest for OS X and all my programs. When you start up the disc utility it does not say what partition is located in the fastest disc section. How can one be assured to put OS X into this partition location? Is it the top one or bottom on the disc partition set up screen?? Or maybe it will automatically be the largest partition?
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V.K. wrote:
I wonder why one needs bootcamp assistant at all.
For the same reason they need other assistants or "wizards": to simplify & make more convenient what could otherwise only be done with more complex methods that require greater technical knowledge or more time to do. Boot Camp Assistant provides "one stop shopping" for file system & other checks, step-by-step installation instructions, initial creation of the Windows partition, & setting the Windows installer disk as the startup disk. And like many other assistants, it does not offer all the possible options to keep things simple.
KJK555 wrote:
If you don't use boot camp, then generally you must reformat the partition when you install windows,
but that is usually a moot point because most people prefer an NTFS file system and typically format
the partition anyway.
To be clear about it, you must use Boot Camp (which is primarily the set of drivers & other software that allow Windows to use the Mac's hardware) if you want a fully functional Windows environment, but you don't have to use Boot Camp Assistant to set up the installation. As for what file system most people prefer, it depends on the Windows version (don't use FAT32 for Vista!) & on whether or not users want to write to the Windows partition from OS X (OS X reads from but does not write to NTFS).
The only time it
be a real problem is if you wanted a fat32 partition larger than 32GB. ipartition can handle those
chores though, ipartition allows you to shrink or expand msdos partitions.
A FAT32 partition larger than 32 GB might be a problem in other respects. MS says larger ones encounter unacceptable slowness & inefficiencies, which is why (so the company says) that the Windows 2000 & later formatter program imposes that limit. Third party utilities can get around this, of course, but I believe fragmentation issues mitigate against everyday use of the larger FAT partitions.

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Thanks Don and Jim,
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The tech forum in the ExPostFacto site (http://forum.macsales.com/) has a number of extensive discussions about partitioning and recommendations. I suggest you look there for additional discussion by people with far more expertise than me.
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