How many partitions should I put on my 300 Gb drive? How big should my C: drive be?

Question

Is there such a thing as too many partitions?

Answer 1

If you're dual booting I'd go with three (half for shared storage and a quarter each for your 2 OS's)

If you are only running 1 OS, I'd still go 3 - give btwn 60-80GB for you OS, and split the rest in 2 - one half for long term storage and the other for files regularly sorted or deleted (will allow for regular clearing and won't cause fragmentation of more important areas in your drive.

Oh, and as to another ding-dong's suggestion about creating a partition for swap space...forget it. Your paging file either need to be in the same partition or on a separate PHYSICAL drive - simply placing on a separate partition can cause SLOWER speed and more complications

Answer 2

If I'm not wrong a physical drive can have at most 4 logical partitions.

I do suggest this.

~15-20gbs for you OS, purely OS and some stupid software which requires u to install on C:

~150 gbs for your program files. (depends how many programs u wld actually install)

~ 3 gbs for a dedicated swap drive, where the swap file will stay in

~ the rest, other personal files.


At least when you OS gets a virus, less chance of your personal file partition getting infected.

You can always save an image of your fresh os in your personal partition too.

And dont forgot to format the file system to ntfs, it will natrually give u more space.

search "ntfs vs fat32" to find out more

Answer 3

Make four partitions. Keep C to 80 GB. And make three more partitions in the remaining space. There is no logic behind it, but it will not be too many partitions.

Answer 4

what you want all them partitions why not just stop with ur 300gb drive and buy a usb drive if you want other windows os on then you can have 2 with out having to mess up da. 1 hard drive you have a usb hard drive you can buy for $35 now

Answer 5

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Answer 6

you can go for any number of partitions as per ur need ... better have in less numbers ... below 4.

for the OS drive , you can have around 10GB which is more than enough, as you are allocating it only for the OS and for installing the components or applications ...

Answer 7

At least two, c being around 25 gb. One for os and second for data. May be three so that u can reserve one for os, other for programs and the third for data.

Answer 8

just make one big 300 gb partition in ntfs

Answer 9

Depends if your wife or kids use it them cut a section out for them, but keep the biggest and the main parts for your C: drive. If its just you then use it all for yours as put to you above.
-NmD!

Answer 10

that all depends what you are using it for why do you want more than one..i just use two one for everything and one with my orignal windows..depends also if you run more than one operating system you have alot of info left out why you are asking this question