Hi I am waiting for a new laptop to arrive and it has a 350g hardrive.
It seems very large and I wondered if it would be better to partition it and if so is this easy to do and do i need to buy some software to do it
thanks Annie
As the drive will already have the operating system and other programs on it you will need to use a hard disk partitioning tool.Originally Posted by coxan56
There are ones you can pay for like Symantec's Partition Magic, which is what I use for partitioning drives on the fly. Alternatively there are several free tools out there like Partition Logic
Just do a google search for disk partitioning tools.
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coxan56 (8th July 2009), harmonicaman (7th July 2009)
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vista has its own partion software. Right click computer/manage/storage/disk management/right click c drive and shrink drive to whatever you require. whatever is left,will be another drive name, if not then you can do it yourself.
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Why partition it? 350GB is not large by today's standard and you'd not get any performance benefit from partitioning it. Just organise your data efficiently and ensure you have a reliable backup program that you use and have tested it works!
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