Hard drive partitions

I just bought a Dell Inspiron 17 with a 350 GB HDD. It is partitioned into C: and D: drives. The C: drive has about 50 GB and the D: about 300 GB. All of the user files are in the smaller C: drive.

1. Wouldn't it be better to have the user files in the larger side?
2. Can this be changed?
3. What do you recommend?

 

My partition table is somewhat like that, 50GB C:\ for Windows, rest for D:\. I put all of my programs and data on D:\ so that when I backup C:\, it will only backup Windows. There is the hassle of having your data on the other partition, but you won't have to worry about your data going down with the system if it crashes.

On my customer systems, I set a large C:\ with a D:\ that is just big enough to hold one recovery file. The reason behind that is most users won't like the hassle of their data not being in the default location, so it's the old convenience vs. safety debate.

You will be able to extend C:\ from within Windows without a problem, but you'll have to delete D:\ first.

 

I use the C partition only for the OS and the D partition for all my data. I also move My Documents etc to the D partition. The size of C is about 50 GB the rest for D.

After a clean install of the OS I use Acronis True Image to make a complete image and put it on the D partition. In the end I keep a backup of My Documents and C-image at my NAS. I think this is a good housekeeping of all my systems.

 

its sounds ok to me. 50gb is a reasonable amount.

if you dont want partition, try disk manager, or if that doesnt work, which was my case, i had to redo the os where in the installation, you have to option to set it up