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HD partitioning
I just started on a new laptop with pre-installed W 7 Home Premium 64bit and need some help with partitioning.
I usually like to have a separate partition for my system files and another for my data files. When I look at the 500 GB HD on this new laptop I see what looks like 3 partitions in "Disk Management":
1) c: Simple, Basic, (Boot, Page file, Crash Dump, Primary Partition) 452 GB
2) Recovery D: Simple Basic (Primary Partition) 12.72 GB
3) System (no drive letter) (System, Active, Primary Partition) 199 MB
I am guessing that what is labelled as system (3) is not really a partition.
A) How do I partition the existing C: into 2 partitions, one for the system and program files and one for Data? Can it be safely done using the tools in disk management or should I use some other tool?
B) does simply copying the Recovery partition to a DVD provide a rescue recovery disk or is there a better way. This laptop did not come with a recovery disk.
Thank you for any help.