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I have a 2TB HDD, I never partitioned it, now I recently I found out that HDD performance is effected by where the data is on the drive is located(outwards=faster)(inwards=slower) and If i'm right primary partition is located on the outside, right?
I cant shrink the primary partition beyond 918Gb, because it says "You cannot shrink a volume beyond where unmovable data is located..." so I made two partitions 943GB(primary) and 918gb, so does this mean that all the movable data was moved to the faster partition?
I just wanna have fallout 4(installed in primary drive) on the faster part of the drive. Can I achieve that somehow?
 
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As others have said, it's not going to make much difference. But the message you're getting is because there is some system file towards the end of the first partition which is preventing you from shrinking it even more. You need to use a defrag program which comes on a bootable CD, or a boot-time defragger which will run before the system files are loaded and thus locked.

https://www.piriform.com/docs/defraggler/technical-information/boot-time-defrag
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ya i know that, i get solid 60fps, i just want better loading times!
 
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All the data in the first partition is located on the fastest part of the drive. Any data on the second will be slower. Likely when you created the second partition it moved all the data into the first partition.

It won't make any real difference. The problem with hdd's is their seek time. That is the time it takes them to find a file in the first place. When a game has to load many small files the performance tanks. The seek time on a hdd can range between 7 to 15ms, while a SSD is near 0.
 
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As others have said, it's not going to make much difference. But the message you're getting is because there is some system file towards the end of the first partition which is preventing you from shrinking it even more. You need to use a defrag program which comes on a bootable CD, or a boot-time defragger which will run before the system files are loaded and thus locked.

https://www.piriform.com/docs/defraggler/technical-information/boot-time-defrag
 
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