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Hardrive setup and maintanance (help)
My w7 premium 64 bit laptop has a 640 GB hardrive. I gave 95 GB to C partition. I notice there is 12 GB reserved for recovery partition. Should this be present even though I've turned restore off? Is it necessary or advised to leave it be? I'm wanting the remaining hardrive 500 gigs or so to be my remaining 2nd partition. Is default allocation unit size best for this? Most of my files I keep here are over a gig in size. Do people manually defrag or let auto drfag for W7? How does auto defrag work? I've noticed default settings for this are to start automatically at a set time. But what if my computer has not been on at that set time for a while. Will it start up anyway? If my hardrive is almost completely full for weeks or months on end I imagine it will be pretty fragmented. If I can then dump the entire hardrive content every few months onto external storage and then perform a defrag before loading the data back on hardrive is this a good way to keep harddrive healthy? I have a habit of keeping my hardrive mostly full at all times. If this is bad practice I'd appreciate advice on how to mitigate the repercutions this may have on my system. I understand defrag only works well if hardrive is at least %20 empty. It seem to me my system will perform best by filling up my D partition first before filling up C partition is that right?