Is the 20GB partition for C Drive adequate?

I see that you can use the Vaio Recovery Utility to alter the partition size allocated to C Drive or to remove the partition altogether.

I wondered if any users have found that the 20GB partition for C drive is a little too restricting? I remember reading somewhere that, for efficient running of some programs, such as video editing programs, there should be about 10GB free space on C drive. Would this be correct?

Do you think it would be a wise move to use the Vaio Recovery Utility to increase the 20GB restriction to say, 30GB before setting up the software? (Assuming that the laptop hard drive is 80GB, and that an external USB hard drive is available for extra storage capacity).

One other question, would a program such as "Partition Magic" be able to be safely used to alter the partitions on a Sony Vaio laptop after all the software has been installed?

Thanks very much for your help.

Fred

 

I use partition magic 8 to alter my partition.
however, make sure you run chkdsk on the drives prior to changing the partition. I usually run chkdsk /f /r
Supposedly it's to prevent some messed up partitioning which might screw the files in the drives. It's happened to me once in the past.

 

Depending if you put any other data, how many local user accounts Windows will have, how many programs you will have, etc on the C: partition, it could be enough or not. I recomend that you have 15 GB for just Windows and Programs, so a good idea might be to have a 15 GB partition for that, and the rest of the disk for documents. If you do get partition editing software, I would recomend you make another partition for data bacup. If you are looking for partition editing software, I would recomend Acronis Disk Director. http://www.acronis.com/

 

Thanks for these comments, the Acronis software looks very good. Many of the Sony Vaios have a 20GB partition for C Drive, but if this is not enough to store all your programs, is it possible to put some programs on the D Drive partition, or do all programs have to be on C Drive?

Regards, Fred

 

I think you can. I installed my games to my D:. But I'd install essential softwares in C:

 

Yes u can, but some folders will still end up in or assosiated with the C drive so if the C gets corrupted your programme might not be safe, i think the norm is to put all your programmes on the operating sytems partion and the saved-to folders on the seperate safer partion

 

I tried installing the Microsoft flight simulator to D drive and it ran well. Because this program occupies nearly 3GB of space, it was impractical to load it onto C drive, which has only 18.6 GB available in total. I also tried installing a few other programs on to D drive, and these are going OK so far.

I think that having the C drive partition as 20GB is adequate only if all programs and other large groups of files (such as digital stills, movies and music etc) are included on D drive.