Quick Q re partitoning a large drive...

Solnyshko

Solnyshko

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finally got Windows to see my drive, now installing OS (happy days)

just wanted to poll opinion on whether it's worth partitioning a large (500GB) drive and installing the OS on smaller slice?

my understanding is that the current consensus view is doing this actually only slows things down as performance on modern 16MB cached drives is pretty good as is...

Thanks
 
Yes split it up. At least 2 partitions. 30 to 50 gig for the OS and then the rest on another for games, media, data etc
 
yeah it's just that I've done this in the past and things have become inordinately fiddly.

I'm thinking logically streamlined folder structures are as good as breaking a physical drive into virtual drives. regular defragging should see to the rest, no?

Also as I'm lazy I intend to (re)install programs to their default place of residence on the same drive as the OS (ie C: ) - What sort of size is an efficient/practical compromise for windows + progs in your learned opinion - if i were to partition?

it's a Samsung Spinpoint T series HD501J btw
 
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Ok decided to give the OS a generous 100GB

- one further question - do I need to partition the remaining space (376939MB) which currently appears in the Windows installation page as 'Unpartitioned' or will Windows automatically assign this space as 'D' drive??

Basically will windows see the remainder as usable?
 
it won't automatically do it. you can do it during windows setup or wait until windows has installed, then use disk management. :)
 
aha ok so once installation is complete - or it sleeker to assign the remainder now from the windows setup end (ie less wastage)?

just tried it and it's showing:

476938 MB Disk 0 Id 0 on bus 0 on si3114r [MBR]

C: Partition1 [New (Raw)] 99998 MB (99998 MB free)
D: Partition2 [New (Raw)] 376931 MB (376931 MB free)
Unpartitioned space 8 MB​
 
that's fine. just continue. you'll need to format it as well (either now or when you get into windows. it really doesn't matter)
 
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