Like 400Gb worth, leaving a paltry 280 or so in C. Means I cannot upload all my music files into the C:library, so it's going into the D drive. I'm guessing it's so big as I requested a full set of recovery DVDs with it. I have never liked W7's My Folders structure, I could never quickly find my photos / music separate from public photos and music etc. One Tree please.
Mahooosive Data partition on my HD
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professorhat
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There's no reason why you can't just have one big C: drive.
Not sure what you mean by "I'm guessing it's so big as I requested a full set of recovery DVDs with it"?
Not sure what you mean by "I'm guessing it's so big as I requested a full set of recovery DVDs with it"?
professorhat said:
Well that's what I thought, bearing in mind I'm no IT techno - I assumed that to burn a set of recovery DVDs (without an external drive) it would make sense to save the image in a partition first, then burn, that's all.
As it happens, apparently it's a Asus "thing" (from JRMC Interactive). Music files are now all uploaded apart from a few albums that I couldnt catch in time, hopefully be able to re-download a couple of critical ones.
I realise now the advantage to the consumer of something like a vinyl LP, a tape, a CD. Your machine is designed to play it, and the medium 99.99% of the time is playable. The challenge of streaming digital data using networks and computers / servers is clearly fraught with a much bigger risk of failure. I guess the biggest inherent risk is downloaded music, and makeing sure you archive or back it up properly.
I'm not quite sure what you're getting at here...
One would usually have all music, photos, video etc on the D partition, away from the OS. Just point Windows and/or your media player to the correct folders to monitor for your library (if you want) or just have a few shortcuts on the desktop to the relevant folders on the D partition.
That system also makes it easier for back ups and easier to maintain your C drive. All I have on my C partition is the OS, virtual memory, system restore and programme files.
I think you can resize partitions in W7 if you want to. (Without using third party software)
Is that any help?
I don't think recovery DVD's will have anything to do with it.
One would usually have all music, photos, video etc on the D partition, away from the OS. Just point Windows and/or your media player to the correct folders to monitor for your library (if you want) or just have a few shortcuts on the desktop to the relevant folders on the D partition.
That system also makes it easier for back ups and easier to maintain your C drive. All I have on my C partition is the OS, virtual memory, system restore and programme files.
I think you can resize partitions in W7 if you want to. (Without using third party software)
Is that any help?
I don't think recovery DVD's will have anything to do with it.
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