Hard drive partitioning

[maynerz93]

hi, i know this is a noobish question but do i need to partition my hard drive?
at the moment my hard drive is split into C and "system reserved". is that partitioned or not?

 

[Hawkeye22]

You don't need to partition unless you want to. You currently have two partitions. one is your C drive, the other is the hidden system reserved partition. Do not delete the system reserved partition or you most likely won't be able to boot your OS anymore. If the C drive is your OS drive, then don't delete that either for obvious reasons.

 

[maynerz93]

You don't need to partition unless you want to. You currently have two partitions. one is your C drive, the other is the hidden system reserved partition. Do not delete the system reserved partition or you most likely won't be able to boot your OS anymore. If the C drive is your OS drive, then don't delete that either for obvious reasons.

thankyou hawkeye22, do you reccomend have a extra artition anyhow for data ect. or is there no point if im going to back it all up an external hd?

 

[Hawkeye22]

Again, it's your call. If you are one of those people that likes to do a clean install of the OS regulary, then I suggest you make a smaller partition for the OS and a larger partition for data. this way you can blow away your OS partition and reinstall without effecting your data (movies, pictures, documents,...). Of course, repartitioning now will require a reinstall of the OS or a partition manager that can alter the partition table without destroying any of your data (not always full proof). In either case, I recommend you make backups since anytime you mess with the partition tables you risk loss of data.

 

[maynerz93]

ah that makes sense, windows partition manager only seems to want to give up half the space off the c drive so im left with near enough 250gb for my os drive if i were to partition, would you reccomend any 3rd party partitioners?

 

[Hawkeye22]

Easeus partition manager:

http://www.partition-tool.com/personal.htm