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I would certainly recommend creating a data partition as a great way of keeping your personal data separate from your operating system.
Partition or Volume - Create New
If ever you have to re-install Windows you can do so without worrying about losing any of your important files such as photos, music, videos and personal docs.
Not only that, you can create a system image of your Windows partition for backup purposes, and then create another backup of your data partition with incremental backups thereafter.
The lab did nothing wrong. Most PCs do not have a separate data partition, even though many on this forum do.
You can get along fine without one---just keep your personal data backed up. You should be doing that regardless of how many partitions you have.
Haven't heard much about Ghost in recent years and I'm not sure it works with Windows 7. The similar imaging programs most favored on this forum are Acronis, Macrium Reflect, or Windows own built-in imaging.
By the WAY, is it a good thing if i were to download (in addition to the progs i have like WinDfnder, avast, CCleaner) the program known as "Malwarebytes"
Malwarebytes : Free anti-malware, anti-virus and spyware removal download
and in any case please tell me which program to run and how often (by saying that i mean the above programs and any other cleaning / defragment tools u may suggest, such as Advance system Care or anything else)... thx.
I'm getting quite confused , there's so much info and i didn't know that computer is so much maintanence. it's quite annoying, everything u buy, u also have to protect, clean and perfect every day.... why cant it be a good product that u buy and it works for a lot of time ... geess XD excuse me for childish complaining but it just seems like im gonna become the computer's slave....
Another thing is whether or not should i keep the computer on for several days? I don't normally download torrents so theres no basic need but it's kind of like an Ages-old question that haven't been given a clear answer to me. [in what cases should i do so , if at all]
Yes get the free malwarebytes and scan once a week.
Run Ccleaner once a week
Be sure to boot the computer at least once a week
There is no need to leave the computer on, but if you do boot once a week
Malware Bytes is highly regarded. With the free version, you generally run it when you suspect you may have a problem. No harm done in running it periodically (weekly say) otherwise.
Defrag runs weekly by default. That is fine. Leave it alone.
CCleaner run periodically--weekly or monthly is fine.
Your antivirus should be running constantly.
I wouldn't run a PC for several days unless I was using it throughout that period. I'd shut it down if I wasn't going to be using it for more than an hour or two.
The first step in backing up your data is determining where it resides. Do you know where all of your data is--which folders??
If so, you can do a basic backup by simply using the mouse to drag those folders (copy them) to another drive. If you don't have one, get one.
There are numerous programs that will help to automate the backup process--but you first need to determine where your data is and get another drive to hold the backups.
2 HDDs are much preferrred. Even if you have a second partition on your main drive, if that drive fails you will lose both partititions and everything on them. Drives do fail, it's just a question of when.
Obviously, if your data is of little importance, then you don't need 2 drives. One can be external.
Malware Bytes free version is NOT a trial.