Is there anyway to move a partition on the outer platter of the disk closer to the inner spindle?

Question

I have a desktop hard drive that is 640GB a partition C 25GB and the rest are on partition D for data.

Now my problem is some how the OS partition is showing on the very last part of the Disk Management. And it's getting very slow to boot up the OS (Windows 7)

Is there any tool I can use to physically move the partition from the outer platter to the inner closer to the spindle ? Cuz I know that will improve the performance dramatically

Answer 1

Only by re-creating the partitions—having backed up the content first of course. There are tools that can help (whether they can swap the positions will depend on the product).

But:

I know that will improve the performance dramatically

This is not true. Modern hard disks pack more sectors into the outer tracks of the disk, so linear read and write performance doesn't change much across the disk. What will slow things down will be having to seek backwards and forwards from one edge to the other: but with a partition not occupying the whole disk this will not happen (and the answer would be to defragment the disk: a good idea and Windows 7 will do this automatically on a scheduler).