I have recently brought a new laptop which has one 500gb hard drive and I would like to partition the main partition into two partitions. One for system and one for documents/music/photos... would shrinking this main partition using the built in partitioning tool achieve this?
Also would defragging allow all the free space to be used if I chose to partition the hard drive in this way? as currently it only allows about half to be used.
Is partitioning a hard drive in this way good? What are your suggestions?
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would shrinking this main partition using the built in partitioning tool achieve this?
in a word, yes.
and defragmenting the drive first helps in a way, you will get contiguous free space.
Is partitioning a hard drive in this way good?
main benefit: you can 'ghost' your system drive and always restore the computer from that image without losing data on the second partition. (now this is no excuse for not having a proper backup :)
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