Is C: + D: config recommended for SSD
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Boogieman_WD
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Hey there, Max.
The recovery partition usually doesn't have a letter and I'd recommend that you go to Disk Management and remove the letter (not the partition). Here's how to open Disk Management: How to access Disk Management in Windows to manage hard drives, after that click with the right-mouse button on the recovery partition, select "Drive letter and paths" and when you open it click on "remove". Of course if you don't mind seeing it in Windows Explorer (My Computer, This PC, etc) and it doesn't bother you that much, you could leave it as it is.
Partitioning is not an old approach in my opinion. You can organized your stuff a lot easier by partitioning your drive, regardless if it is an SSD, HDD, SSHD; internal or external. E. g. if you have a separate partition for your OS and you decide to reinstall Windows at some point, you could format just the partition containing the OS and leave the ones with your personal data intact. Basically it's up to personal preference.
Hope that helps.
Boogieman_WD
The recovery partition usually doesn't have a letter and I'd recommend that you go to Disk Management and remove the letter (not the partition). Here's how to open Disk Management: How to access Disk Management in Windows to manage hard drives, after that click with the right-mouse button on the recovery partition, select "Drive letter and paths" and when you open it click on "remove". Of course if you don't mind seeing it in Windows Explorer (My Computer, This PC, etc) and it doesn't bother you that much, you could leave it as it is.
Partitioning is not an old approach in my opinion. You can organized your stuff a lot easier by partitioning your drive, regardless if it is an SSD, HDD, SSHD; internal or external. E. g. if you have a separate partition for your OS and you decide to reinstall Windows at some point, you could format just the partition containing the OS and leave the ones with your personal data intact. Basically it's up to personal preference.
Hope that helps.
Boogieman_WD
Thanks for the advice but I'm not sure C+D makes any sense on a SSD. After all, we're not moving read arms to read file allocation tables. MSoft persists in placing the User folders on C: and doesn't like them moved. I can explicitly move things around but that's a lot of work. So my choice is to drop D:, move the recovery partition to the end of the drive, and expand C: to fit all the available space. Now I have a 260M boot partition, a 476 GB OS (C
partition, and a 500MB NTFS recovery partition. I'll let you know if that doesn't work out.
partition, and a 500MB NTFS recovery partition. I'll let you know if that doesn't work out.
Boogieman_WD
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Well, as I've already mentioned it's all up to personal preference. I guess you're going to try with a 3rd party partitioning program, as it sounds like the C and D partitions are not next to each other and this won't allow you to extend the C drive with space, which is not right next to it on the right side if you're using Disk Management. Just make sure that you backup any valuable data which you might have, so that you're on the safe side in case something unexpected happens.
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