The dude I bought my computer from partitioned my tera disk in two without asking, he divided into 300 gb and 700 gb… Ive been having this rig for 4 or 5 months
Why? What are the benefits? Having the OS in one disk and the rest in the other? WHY? If I ever had to reformat the OS in C:.. I’d have to reinstall all programs on D:\ anyway…
Also if this was about making it easy to organize my data, it was a terrible mistake. that’s what folders are for! folders are my friends and I can rename them to whatever I want and put them wherever I want… i mean C:\ and D:\ dont look like friends to me, they look like they don’t like me very much, in fact I’m quite scared now
I just don’t get it, is it a performance thing? I don’t really think my computer is much faster thanks to this…
I’m not used to several partitions, now my pc is a disgusting horrible mess, I got some stuff installed on C:\ some on D:\ some unity projects are on documents and settings on C:, other stuff is on D:.. I mean, is it a good partition a disk for real? Or is it a STUPID silly nerdy thing…?
I feel like throwing my disk to the garbage and starting my life over…
maybe it’s performance thing,because afaik 1 TB HDD divided into 5 different platter,he might think divided it into 2 would decrease fragmentation?in practical i think it still limited on sata2/sata3 maximum bandwidth specification?
Hey people who make games/repairing computer or do anything morethan 5 hours/week in computer is a Nerd :lol: ,deal with it we are all here Nerd or less geek :twisted: .But geek/nerd more cool nowadays than old timer
300 is a bit much for the system partition (60-100 is the norm). This is done so you don’t loose your data if anything happens to your system partition and need to format/ whatnot.
It also minimizes the time you spend reinstalling windows (which will eventually happen) because you know you don’t need to recover any data from that partition.
Thirdly, if you’re using any form of disk imaging/ recovery software (Ghost, Acronis True Image), it makes it much faster because it has less files to work with.
There are probably more reasons but this is why I do it.
P.S: the C drive should be left for the OS and pagefile. Over time I’ve come to detest applications that default to the Program Files folder because of this.
I have my OS and Programs on one disk (as well as major games, for speed) and all my work on other disks,
I wouldn’t even bother partitioning the OS disk.
I have many times when the OS gets to the point of non-repair just formatted and started over (not with this present system but with others).
You can always buy a second disk, back up what you need, format the first disk and keep it a single partition, depending on how much time you want to spend and if you feel it’s worth it. I learned long ago to keep all my work on a different disk (you can also use a different partition) after more than once getting my C drive into an unrecoverable state and losing everything.
300 and 700? That makes no sense. If you keep your files on one and the OS on another that makes sense cause then you can reinstall your OS without having to worry about backing up files(although you should anyway, rewriting a partition could harm any other partitions on the drive)
I think the guy who did it just likes partitions. It should have been around 50GB max for Windows 7 x64 Ultimate partition as I can’t imagine the OS to outgrow that size. Perhaps the 300GB is a recovery partition like mainstream computer companies to restore it to his defaults. However by default I have never seen a pc with so much installed from the get go that it would take up more than 30GB. Sounds illogical to me and I am a CS major who has dual booted Windows and Linux machines as well as partitioned my current Windows drive to have an extra back up drive to house files for when I reformat the other partition. :? I can’t figure out the reasons for such partitions and I know all about them.
yeah sorry, from the top of my head I knew I had around 700 gb on my D:\ and since it’s suposed to be 1 tera hdd I assumed C:\ was 300gb, but it’s actualy 150gb and 781gb, addding 930gb, not eaxcly 1000gb, big deal.
That’s what I was saying. I prefer not wasting 2-4 hours copying files with a Linux LiveCD to another hdd (the 750gb of data I’ve got laying around). So an OS partition is helpful in this case.
150 is a bit over-the-top for a single user OS though.
I bought myself 2x80gb SSD’s as my OS disk and even without steam on them I only have 6gb left.
If I were to put steam on there I would need another 100gb easily.
I’m running Windows 7, with 3ds max, photoshop, and the rest, and my dropbox is on my OS disk seeing as that’s where I work 99% of the time and where I would notice the biggest speed increase.
Ah, then a 150GB partition doesn’t seem so bad. That makes sense as Windows can get bloated. My Vista Ultimate x64 is only about 10GB of space so I am not sure why you would need 150. Oh well, it probably makes defragging more streamlined as it doesn’t have to worry about moving windows files and then Windows itself can install updates contiguously making windows run slightly faster.
I did! It was late night and the rain was quite heavy… I ran hastily 10 blocks to his house and furiously banged his door repeatedly until he opened, and as I fell on my knees I simply said ‘why’ and he replied ‘because I can’
it was more like a made up scenario. I actually was quite happy when I just got my pc and didn’t even question why my hdd was partitioned, only now that I’ve single handedly made a mess out of my disk I can’t help to blame partitions :lol:
Depends on what kind of system(s) you’re after as well as your user behaviour. If you’re only dealing with one OS, two partitions can make sense for some safety and flexibility reasons.
A small but sufficient boot/system partition, where the OS boots from and where you install all your applications. Then you use the second partition for all you data, which nowadays most probably is the much larger chunck. So two partitions can make sense but at least for my needs yours aren’t wisely choosen as the first partition is too large and so you’re wasting space there.
I never needed to do this on my own as i always set them up correctly before but you should be able to do this on Windows 7 either by a) the system tools (disk manager and maybe defrag before) or b) by certain tools which you can get for free or have to buy. There should be plenty of info if you google for something like windows 7 shrink partitions or resize instead of shrink…
Option c) would be to install a fresh system and set it all up again. ;O)
300 is a bit much for the OS partition but I tell ya, at one point I had ALL my apps installed (we’re talking Microsoft Office, CorelDRAW, Adobe Web Premium CS4, all my 3D apps, music app, video / DVD authoring apps, and I got up to around 200-gigs, so I can appreciate his decision!)
As already mentioned, I also split my “C:” drive into two as well, again for the safety of my data whenever I need to blow out my C: drive and start over again.
I also encrypt that 2nd partition using TrueCrypt just so I know my creative works are protected from easy access…
I also agree about hating apps that store data into folders on the OS drive!
Back in the day I was so anal about this, using TweakXP, I used to move my Documents and other config folders onto my 2nd drive in the hopes of keeping my data off the OS drive.
Futile dream with the way a lot of apps are written, unfortunately.
I made the experience that the less space you have, obviously you need a reasonable minimum of space, the more cleaner your system will stay in the long run. So far i’ve never needed more than 100GB for a boot partition.
