Partitioned harddrive...one fast, the other slow.

[beavereater]

Just as the title says. I have an external 120 gig. It's equally partitioned, using partition magic. So it's an F and G drive and for some reason the G drive works slower. By slower I mean, as an example, when I analyze my disk for defraging G always takes about twice as long, even when both have just been defragged. Both drives have almost the same amount of space. I've done a virus check, spyware check...nothing. I also did a disk check, but it turned up nothing. SO...what could it be?? I just don't wanna have to go through the pain of saving everything to another PC and the formatting...

[Soopafresh]

It could be your default block size. Just a guess.

[guns1inger]

Generally one partition will be slower than the other simply because the disk reads more quickly towards the centre. You will notice a difference, but 100% seems out of order.

Other factors - block size, as mentioned, also file size (a large file reads quicker than lots of small files taking up the same space)