I have 2TB primary hard drive. Is it wise to partition it? I'm planning to upgrade to win 10 in the future. Desktop's primary
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Partition it as how? Do you want to run multiple OS's on one machine? Each partition is a logical data set of its own file structure. With every install of Windows there is always a boot partition, a NTFS partition usually for the C, and a partition for paging files. You can reduce the size of the C partition (Windows comes with an administrative tool to do all this easily with a GUI) and leave blank space by which to install the new OS on. Or just overwrite everything when installing Windows 10. Or simply upgrade without fresh installing (I think this is an option, I never upgraded to a new Windows personally).
jsmithepa
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There is no single best way, depends what you are doing with it. As usual, you folks provide less than adequate information to answer.
If I had a single 2TB drive and no other storage, I would:
Make partition 1, for OS and Apps only, about 64G. I do this because I want to be able to disaster recover from image back ups. If anything wrong, malware, whatever, I can go back very quickly, 15 minutes, to when my OS was behaving EXACTLY what I had before. They say you can do this with Windows backup but to me it's too slow and un-reliable.
Make partition 2, 64G or so for my TOOLS, this is where I keep stuffs I download, Apps that I've accumulated through the years, scripts, backup images etc.
Make partition 3, 1TB for my permanent audio/video libraries, the stuff that stay pretty static.
Make partition 4, the rest, for my daily recordings, stuffs that get added and deleted all the time, this partition will fragment a lot.
I do these because this is my HTPC box, you have a game-only box, you will do other things.
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