"Tim Meddick" wrote in
:

So you don't imagine that bad practices such as having
1000's of files in the root dir, negatively affects
processes involving disk operations?

Not to mention having an 800GB drive with a single c:
partition...

Or, should you be one of the few clued into the wonder that is
partitioning, searching through ALL your partitions at once?
(Which of course should never be necessary if your partitioning
was done with some forethought and good design...)