Advice needed possibly urgent

buzbyxman

Hi,
Can anyone help me? :eek:
My partner just got a new Samsung R519 laptop from her insurance company following a claim!
When she came to setting it up there is this bit that asks for you to set a partition for restoration/backup the total hard disk size is 320GB.
How much do you advise cor the C drive and the D drive?
And just to settle something in my head - is all the files stored on the
C drive??

Thank you sooo much!!
You Guys and Girlsare fantastic!!!:T:o:o
Sorry about any spelling mistakes!!!

davb

I think it normally offers a default something like 50/50 - I would go with that, it's not impossible to change at a later date.

The files "My Documents" "My Pictures" etc should go onto C: by default, but you could move things if you wanted to.

wornoutmumoftwo

I only have about 50 for my c drive but I have a small hard drive (120gb) and don't have a lot of programmes on there.

buzbyxman

I was thinking 2 thirds for C and 1 third for D how about this??

gaming_guy

i'd set the drive up as:

C:\ Operating system (so if it corrupts, you can wipe it without touching stuff on the drive)

\ Data files (pictures, music etc)

R:\ Recovery partition (for when you need to reinstall windows)

web_ferret

gaming_guy wrote: »

i'd set the drive up as:

C:\ Operating system (so if it corrupts, you can wipe it without touching stuff on the drive)

\ Data files (pictures, music etc)

R:\ Recovery partition (for when you need to reinstall windows)

Yes I'd agree

omen666

I agree with the above 2 posters as well. Allow about 20GB for the OS, gives you a bit of leeway on the apps you might install

marms

omen666 wrote: »

Allow about 20GB for the OS, gives you a bit of leeway on the apps you might install

Some installs of windows 7 will need more than this, I set my C partition to 20GB and it's always full so i'd reccomend 30GB

bargainsearcher

Help!
Just bought a Samsung R519 notebook today and I am trying to set it up. I have reached the partition set up and I am clueless. Have googled and searched this forum, and although it did get a mention I'm still not a hundred percent sure what I'm doing. The screen currently states 'select carefully as the program runs once only'. The hard disc capacity is 232.88GB how much do I give to the C drive and how much to the D drive.
You help would be much appreciated.

bugeyed

As per the above advice - 160 gb for C, then remainder for D will be adequate

bargainsearcher

Thank you so much.