Choosing partition size on new laptop

saxonrosecliff

Hi I'm a complete non-techie setting up a Samsung R519 laptop. It is asking me to choose the partition size. It is suggesting splitting equally between C and D dirve - 225.33GB for each but I can choose my own settings. Is what they suggest correct? I've got no idea what partitioning is!

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Depends what you are going to put on it, partitioning is splitting the disk into 2 or more drives, handy for keeping all your data on d, and leaving c for programs and OS, which makes backing up easier.

Lil306

Think of partitioning as just slices of a pie. Rather than 1 large piece, you can divide it into multiple chunks and share it out

~450gb is a nice size anyway for a laptop hard drive and I'll doubt you use anywhere near that unless you download films and store them a lot

There's no harm keeping it at the recommended sizes, normally you only go into hard drive partitioning if you want better performances (i.e area for page file) one area for storing music, one for movies etc, but it's a bit pointless

I'd stick with the defaults, they can easily be resized with 3rd party freeware (i.e EASEUS partition manager)

saxonrosecliff

Wow thanks for the quick answers. I won't be downloading films or anything so will leave it as it is and thanks for explaining what partitioning is!

Bikertov

I would go for 150G on the c:, and 300G on the d:

Then you can put all your documents, videos, picture, music etc on the d: drive, and leave the c: just for programs.

Resizing CAN be done, but get more risky as the disk fills up. I would not attempt a resize on a 'used' disk.
If you ever had to reinstall window, you would not then lose your data.