Partitioning The Hard Drive

[Laurysss]

Should I partition it when I install windows or after i installed windows? And should i partition it at all?

[Ivyk]

No need to partition it because of that, I have multiple partition (1 for general shit, 1 for shows/music and 1 for back-up).

[ShadowCaptain]

Not really any reason to in my opinion if its just running windows and normal programs there is no real benefit

[Laurysss]

I will probably partition it to separate the files - 500gb and 500gb. Can i do it during windows installation? What do i press? (i do not want to fuck up anything)

[iamthecpu]

you can but you will lose everything when you partition the hard drive 

[Guest]

you can but you will lose everything when you partition the hard drive 

 

You don't lose anything at all. Why are you saying this.

[Rubenis]

You don't lose anything at all. Why are you saying this.

Partition making must be done before installing Windows/Linux on empty drive. If someone does partition disk after Windows/Linux is installed, it can degrade performance.

 

Linus had video recently about HDD and partitions. They did make partition on fastest part of disk, that did improve lower end of read speed on one partition.

[gramzon]

No need to partition it because of that, I have multiple partition (1 for general shit, 1 for shows/music and 1 for back-up).

You back up on the same drive as your main drive? is that really a back up then?

[Geekazoid]

You don't lose anything at all. Why are you saying this.

Agreed! Why is he saying this? Even if you have Windows installed on your HDD or SSD you can still partition any drive without loosing any data. It just formats what's left. That's just silly buggers with him thinking that. Someone needs to read more so one doesn't end up looking stupid (not you of course).

[Laurysss]

Partition making must be done before installing Windows/Linux on empty drive. If someone does partition disk after Windows/Linux is installed, it can degrade performance.

 

Linus had video recently about HDD and partitions. They did make partition on fastest part of disk, that did improve lower end of read speed on one partition.

I watched that linus video too. How do i find out my "fastest part of disk" or what ever?

[Ivyk]

You back up on the same drive as your main drive? is that really a back up then?

The stuff I back up is from my SSD, don't have anything useful on my HDD anyways just some downloads and movies/shows.

[gramzon]

The stuff I back up is from my SSD, don't have anything useful on my HDD anyways just some downloads and movies/shows.

oh right, from the way you wrote it I thought that maybe it was all one 1 drive

 

[Laurysss]

There's no reason for creating a new partiton in most cases...

But you'd always decrease size and then create a partition with the unallocated space

Can i do it during the windows installation? And what exaclty to press.

[Laurysss]

That was disk management, and yes you can

Ok gona make 3 partition (4 with system reserved) 1 for windows, 2 for games , 3 for all the other files. I like it nice and clean Thanks

[Rubenis]

I watched that linus video too. How do i find out my "fastest part of disk" or what ever?

Use HD Tune Pro. It has some trial period, but you can cheack where does the performance come down and then make partition that big to keep lowest read/write numbers as high as you can.

[minus]

Can you please provide the link to that video? thanks!

[minus]

I watched that linus video too. How do i find out my "fastest part of disk" or what ever?

Can you please provide the link to that video? thanks!

 

Edit: Sorry for double posting