Hard Drive Partition?

[jonnyhicks89]

i have just purchased and was wondering about a hard drive partition. would it be benificial and what size partion(s) should i do.

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[jonnyhicks89]

anybody????

 

[kruppsy]

Am I right in seeing you just have the one HDD, the 240GB SSD? Also what are your reasons for the partition?

Just speaking from a personal point of view, I wouldnt bother. I have partitioned in the past so that I could run different operating systems. I bought a desktop a while back with Vista, realised it was a nightmare of an OS, so set up a partition so that i could dual boot to either XP or Vista. Then, fancied a play on Linux so set up another partition so I could boot one of three ways depending on what I fancied doing. OTT? probably but it tought me a lot. I guess what Im saying is, do it if your planning to run another OS along side your primary one, however with only 240GB of HDD remember that'll, at best, half per partition. This wont leave you not much room to play with per partition. There may be other reasons to partition that someone else knows about but theres my 2 cents. Not very coherent, but I've had a stab at least fella!

Man alive, I feel i've said partition far too many times!!

 

[Rakk]

As kruppsy said a good reason to partition would be if you're setting up dual OS's.
However if not, then it won'r really benefit you at all to partition, especially on a small hard drive.

 

[jonnyhicks89]

thanks guys i was just wondering. Only got the 1 240 ssd because i was going to have a second hardrive but would prefer a cd drive than 2 hardrives. i have a 1 tb portable harddrive so 240 gb will do fine.

 

[eruditionfish]

If you're not planning on using multiple OSes, then the main reason for partitioning your hard-drive would be to protect your data (documents, music, etc.) in case of a full system crash severe enough to require a fresh Windows installation to fix. In this case, you'd want the C: drive to be large enough to contain your OS and software, while data is moved to a separate partition. If this is going to be your primary computer, I wouldn't recommend less than 60GB in the C: drive at minimum, but you'd likely want closer to 120GB to give yourself some room.

If, however, you've got a second hard-drive, then there's very little need to repartition the main drive.
Similarly, if you diligently keep backups of all your data on an external drive, you would likely be fine with a single partition even with only one drive.