Partitioning my notebook HDD?

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Hi guys

I just bought a new DELL notebook - 1TB HDD with 32GB SSD. I haven't installed anything on it yet, but it did come pre-installed with Windows 10 PRO. (I don't have an installation CD).
I've been reading everywhere that it is a good idea to partition your hard-drive and keep the OS separate from your personal data.
Currently the C drive is about 930GB and it also has a few recovery drives.
I tried partitioning with disk management, and it seems the smallest I can make my C drive (OS) is about 450GB. So my question is, should I bother partitioning it?
 
Use bootable disk utility to resize partition. There are restrictions if you try to resize on the running OS.

On the occacsion make full disk image of preloaded OS. You can do it from external utility, but there is also such option in Windows 10.
 
Ive used Gparted with great success. Dowload the iso and write to disk/usb. Then boot from disk/usb when you start your PC.
 
Nah I would not bother, I've got my os installed on a 1TB drive. I do however sync my personal files to another drive and the cloud.

Back in the day I had my C: and then D: for all my data.
 
Seems like people liked to do this 'in the old days' for some reason. Can't see much of a point in doing it. Sounds like the 32GB is just a cache. The amount of people who partition their drives and use the one partition as a 'backup' is scary :erm:
 
SouthBit said:
Seems like people liked to do this 'in the old days' for some reason. Can't see much of a point in doing it. Sounds like the 32GB is just a cache.
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I agree, integrated SSD with hard drive. A reason SSD doesn't appear as a separate device.
 
SouthBit said:
Seems like people liked to do this 'in the old days' for some reason. Can't see much of a point in doing it. Sounds like the 32GB is just a cache. The amount of people who partition their drives and use the one partition as a 'backup' is scary :erm:
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Well back in the day you had size limits and things.

But in the modern world it makes no sense.
 
vancity33 said:
Hi guys

I just bought a new DELL notebook - 1TB HDD with 32GB SSD. I haven't installed anything on it yet, but it did come pre-installed with Windows 10 PRO. (I don't have an installation CD).
I've been reading everywhere that it is a good idea to partition your hard-drive and keep the OS separate from your personal data.
Currently the C drive is about 930GB and it also has a few recovery drives.
I tried partitioning with disk management, and it seems the smallest I can make my C drive (OS) is about 450GB. So my question is, should I bother partitioning it?
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In the good olde days there were good reasons for keeping data separate from the OS and hence why partitioning was considered important. Most of these reasons are no longer there so there is no point.

BUT:

If you really want to do this first:

(1) Use a tool like this to find out what the Win 10 Key is. https://github.com/Superfly-Inc/ShowKeyPlus/releases/download/ShowkeyPlus6084/ShowKeyPlus.zip
(2) Update WIN 10 Pro to the latest version
(3) Download the OS ISO on to a memory stick or something.

THEN play around to hearts content, knowing you will be able to recover if things go wrong.
 
Guys, stop rambling about partitioning while it comes out that OP wanted to partition 32GB SSD in order to speed up Windows startup. It is not the case, as there is no separate SSD device.
 
sajunky said:
Guys, stop rambling about partitioning while it comes out that OP wanted to partition 32GB SSD in order to speed up Windows startup. It is not the case, as there is no separate SSD device.
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If that is all he wants to do, then there plenty of other things to check through in the configuration of WIN 10 Pro before worrying about drive partitions .... especially why those "recovery drives" are there...
 
SouthBit said:
The amount of people who partition their drives and use the one partition as a 'backup' is scary :erm:
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It's not without it's benefits, not ideal at all but better than nothing in some scenarios.
 
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