Primary Partition question
- Thread starter craigxt22
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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?
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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
I all honesty I'd just have one big drive. Saves complexity
Cool, I'll keep it as it is then!
These days there's very little reason to partition unless you're going to backup the entire drive and restore it at some point later. It can't be seen as a method of backup for data storage as the partitions are on the same physical drive too.
As ZeniTimes said with a 500Gb drive I'd be tempted to leave it as one drive and simply backup to an encrypted external USB drive.
As ZeniTimes said with a 500Gb drive I'd be tempted to leave it as one drive and simply backup to an encrypted external USB drive.
that's exactly what i do. if windows goes belly up, you don't have to faff about trying to recover documents before you re-format. of course it offers no protection against hard drive failure but you'd obviously keep backups of anything that is important to you.
my windows partition is just 40gb. that's plenty enough for normal windows applications and updates. i install all my games and store my music/video/etc on another partition.
If you've got a backup, you shouldn't need to faff
But you are right. If windows does go belly up you can just reinstall it.