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Question about partioning and creating an iso image backup
I have an HP Pavilion Slimline
Model s5-1160
Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
Processor: Intel (R) Core(TM) i5-2400 CPU @3.10GHz 3.10GHz
Hard Drive Size: 1 TB
Installed memory (RAM) (6 GB / 16 GB (max)
I have been told by a computer tech since my hard drive is 1 TB that if I partitioned my C drive to a smaller size rather than using the full current C partition, (I use only 6% of an available 920 GB) that my speed and performance would be better if the computer was not having to deal with all that unused hard drive space, and that cleaning software would not have to clean the whole unused drive as well. First, is that correct, and should I shrink the C drive size and to prevent any possible problems should I also create an .iso image of my whole hard drive as a backup? Should I also create .iso images of each current partition separately? Please advise. Thank you, Fish4Bass