One partition or more?

bru said:

whs said:

I would shrink the OS partition to 60GB (100GB if you have games) and allocate a logical partition in the free space. There you define folders for Documents, Music, Pictures, etc. Then right click on those folders and INcLUDE them into the corresponding libraries. Move your user data into these folders.

This is an alternate method over moving the original user folders to the data partition as described here. There are certain advantages to it and it can be done without any risks.

This is the part that confuses/worries me. My Disk Mgmt is similar to the OP except my recovery volume comes after my OS C:. If I shrink the OS partition where does my data (~75GB) that is currently in C: go until I move it to the new partition? How can I shrink a 690GB OS C: volume down to 60GB or even 100GB if it has 75GB of data plus the OS in it?

Just save the data on an external drive in the interim. A 690GB drive you will not be able to shrink to 60 or 100GB with Disk Management - even if it has less than 60GB of data. For that you need to use the Partition Wizard. It can move the MFT that is in the way.

There is, of course, no MUST for C to be 60 or 100GB. It can also be bigger. With a big disk as yours, it may not matter.

Bill2 said:

headbuster said:

I just tried to shrink C but it says I can only shrink it to 320gb because of the unmovable files... that's unfortunate... Having a 320gb C and a 260GB D is pointless :S
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Also I only asked if I should separate it not because I am afraid to lose files, but because I thought it was bad to have only 1 partition and install all the stuff on it....

Obviously you never read either the posts in this thread or the tuts.

Actually I read them all several times. I am assuming that this ( second part) will work. The thing is it doesn't say that it ignores the unmovable files so I wasn't sure.
If you don't want to help, it's pointless to reply.
Thank you

EDIT:
nope, it didn't work...

headbuster said:

I just tried to shrink C but it says I can only shrink it to 320gb because of the unmovable files... that's unfortunate... Having a 320gb C and a 260GB D is pointless :S
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Also I only asked if I should separate it not because I am afraid to lose files, but because I thought it was bad to have only 1 partition and install all the stuff on it....

Did you try Partition Wizard bootable CD (last entry in the link) Free Download Magic Partition Manager Software - Partition Wizard Online

The Partition Wizard boot disk will move them but be sure to use the boot CD and not the installed version.


First download the Partition Wizard Bootable Disk (PWBD) ISO file to the desktop, be sure to get the PWBD and not the installed version; scroll down to see the download link for the bootable CD ISO file at this link below.

Partition Wizard Free Bootable CD

Then use ImgBurn to burn the ISO to a CD, at no greater than 4x speed with a verify; it was designed for use and works best from a CD rather that a then boot the created CD to make the changes.

ImgBurn Free ISO Burning Software

Then use Method Two of this one.

Partition / Extended : Logical Drives