Recommended number of partitions

Hello, One of my friends has a windows 7 computer with an account for himself, his mother and his 2 sisters. All the home directorys are stored in drive C. Partition D is shared. The question is, how to get a partition layout like this? Partition 1: OS + programs Partition 2: home partition...

Hi, I am trying to install Fedora OS on my laptop for dual booting because I need to use Linux for work. However, from what I found on the internet, I am only allowed to have 4 primary partitions on a hard drive. Currently, I have four primary partitions ( my laptop came with two partitions...

I'm trying to install Windows 7 Home Premium on a UEFI system with a 3TB HDD and I am unable to get the partitions to format properly so I do not get an error in Windows preinstall environment saying the partitions are not in the recommended order. This is the third time I've scrapped the install...

Hello, I have a question concerning the recovery of a system image made with windows 7. When I made the backup image, I had 3 partitions on my disk. But, since I didn't need anymore the third partition, I merged my system partition with this third partition thanks to the disk manager utility of...