Windows 10 Partitions Issue

[Omseik]

Until now, I had my SSD with a single partition for the system and the HDD with a single partition for everything else.

However, I wanted to make 2 partitions from the HDD so I have all my work and shit in one place and my steam games in another one.

 

So.... I shrink my only HDD partition, I created a second one, I moved my games, I shrink my first partition again to add another 100gb to the second partition. But when I extended it (to add these 100gb), the windows told me something bla bla bla dynamic volume, I had no idea what was that and I pressed OK.

 

Tha colour changed to yellow. I have 2 partitions which are only 1?

I want to have only 1 partition (or part of the HDD) for Steam and the other part for different things.

I don't know if this simple volume or dynamic will affect something but I don't like it.

 

 

 

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, Omseik said:

However, I wanted to make 2 partitions from the HDD so I have all my work and shit in one place and my steam games in another one.

Don't do this, no reason to. Just use folders.

 

Id the drive MBR?

 

 

 

[Omseik]

6 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Don't do this, no reason to. Just use folders.

 

Id the drive MBR?

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1. Will be easier for me to backup the partition and sync it, also I will probably encrypt it. My games can just stay normal. Will 2 partitions in one HDD make something bad?

2. The SSD and HDD are GPT, but the HDD is Dynamic GPT

Edited July 1, 2017 by Omseik
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[GoodBytes]

The extra space at the end, that 1-2MB partition that you have, is "normal". There is nothing you can do about it, beside playing with creation of partitions size to have a nice round value based on the defined allocated unit size in your format. Some partition programs will round things to fix that up, so that you don't have this queried thing.

 

Partition Master tells you the truth of the state of your drive and what it has done. Windows Disk Manager hides the 1MB thing partition... but a partition is still a partition, and MBR is limited to 4. The way around this limit is to use an Extended Partition in one of the partitions, which allows you to houses Logical partitions instead. Inside an Extended partition you can have up to 4 partitions max. However, no OS can be installed and made bootable inside, only the non-logical ones, which is called Primary, as only those can be set Active, which means the BIOS will look for the OS boot loader inside.

 

GPT has no limit on partitions (beside your drive), if you wonder. Now, why does MBR has a 4 partition limit? I don't know, it is 1983 tech, everything was done to cost pennies, as everything was super expensive, even a clock timer chip. This is why you have many aged old DOS based games that go faster as your CPU is fast, as there is no timer on many system that people had at the time, so the game was using the CPU clock cycle to know. And this is also why DOS emulators like DOSBox have a feature which allows you to adjust clock speed of the emulated CPU inside, and why later we had a Turbo buttons for compatibility sakes. Anyway, off topic but fun fact.

[bcguru9384]

ssd 1 partition mbr

1 partition temp files

1 partition OS

hdd 1 part for OS recovery/backup/softwareshadow

1 part for pagefile

1 part userdatastorage

[CaptainMI]

17 hours ago, Omseik said:

So.... I shrink my only HDD partition, I created a second one, I moved my games, I shrink my first partition again to add another 100gb to the second partition. But when I extended it (to add these 100gb), the windows told me something bla bla bla dynamic volume, I had no idea what was that and I pressed OK.

 

It looks like you tried to add unalocated space of the disk to a partition which occupied space after the unalocated space, which is not possible in a basic disk. Every partition in a basic disk can only occupy space in a continuous manner, so you only extend it with contiguous free space, not with free unalocated space before it. This can only be done with a dynamic disk. Windows must have asked you to convert your basic disk into a dynamic disk and when you click OK, it did. This is fine, you don't need to worry as dynamic disk allows you to do advance stuff like making a partition span multiple disks.

17 hours ago, Omseik said:

Tha colour changed to yellow. I have 2 partitions which are only 1?

The colour is now yellow because all the volumes are now "Dynamic Volumes".

And yes you do have 2 partitions which are only one as "1->E:Steam" part of your "E:" partition is the appended to your "2->E:Steam" partition, that is, your "E" drive starts on your HDD from "2" and ends on "1". This non contiguous nature of your E drive requires your disk to be Dynamic.

Hope this solves your doubts... :-)

[Omseik]

On 02/07/2017 at 3:08 PM, CaptainMI said:

And yes you do have 2 partitions which are only one as "1->E:Steam" part of your "E:" partition is the appended to your "2->E:Steam" partition, that is, your "E" drive starts on your HDD from "2" and ends on "1". This non contiguous nature of your E drive requires your disk to be Dynamic.

Hope this solves your doubts... :-)

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Will these affect me or the performance? having 2 "partitions" which makes 1. If yes, can I make these 2 to be only 1? stick them together somehow. If not. probably I will leave them like that... Thanks for your help

[CaptainMI]

4 hours ago, Omseik said:

Will these affect me or the performance? having 2 "partitions" which makes 1. If yes, can I make these 2 to be only 1? stick them together somehow. If not. probably I will leave them like that... Thanks for your help

No, there won't be any performance issues, windows can generally manage this stuff quite well.

Still if you want to make it a single partition, you have to delete both the partitions of "E" (backup the data first, of course ) and then create a new single partition. Also,  you can't delete the 2nd E: partition(390gb, the one on the right), before the 100gb (one on left) because your E: partition starts from the 390gb partition.

[Omseik]

12 hours ago, CaptainMI said:

No, there won't be any performance issues, windows can generally manage this stuff quite well.

Still if you want to make it a single partition, you have to delete both the partitions of "E" (backup the data first, of course ) and then create a new single partition. Also,  you can't delete the 2nd E: partition(390gb, the one on the right), before the 100gb (one on left) because your E: partition starts from the 390gb partition.

Great! Thank you for your help.

Probably I will leave them like this if they will not cause me any problems.