Primary Partition question

[craigxt22]

Hi guys.

Just installed Windows 7 without partioning the drive.

What size should I partition it to? 10GB?

Cheers

 

[craigxt22]

How big is your drive? Do you really need more then one partition?

It's a 500GB drive.

I'm not actually sure myself whether I need to partition it. I just thought it was better to have system files on one partition, and normal files (music, videos etc) on another?

 

[craigxt22]

It doesn't make any difference apart from cosmetics. The problem with having your system files on a different partition is expansion. Are you going to install your programs on the second partition? you will need to take that in to consideration when carving up the drive.

I all honesty I'd just have one big drive. Saves complexity

Cool, I'll keep it as it is then!