Shrink C:

[johnbarry]

I have a 250GB SSD I want to shrink C: leaving it at 80GB and the rest for D: I use D for storage not C:

Dave Rice did show me once this is the drive, not sure where to enter 80GB to leave for C.

If I change 120141 to 80141 will that leave 80GB for C, not sure if total size after shrink is for C: or D:

Scrap this thread (please) it won’t let me go below 120141

Cheers
John

[The Duke]

If your C and D are on the same drive, why bother. It just confuses some apps etc, with no real benefit. Though I’d be happy to be told differently.

[wasbit]

OT

Partitioning  the main drive is something I’ve always done. Obviously it doesn’t help if the hard drive fails but it’s no worse than any other scenario.

I back up the My Documents folder to an external drive once a week using FreeFileSync. I don’t bother with apps, only programmes. I also don’t back up the operating system preferring a fresh instal if anything goes wrong. It normally takes 24 hours to get all the updates, even when using WSUS & most programmes seem to work without needing to be re-installed. Haven’t needed to do it for a couple of years though.

Works for me. 🙂

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[johnbarry]

Duke I have always partioned and never confused apps, the real benefit is backups of Windows I don’t need to backup all them docs when backing up windows. I have did this with my Amiga and never looked back.

Wasbit as you I backup docs, the main ones I backup all the time, I use the 1TB you gave me (I think) there is nothing on my rig for long, I even backup the TB to a few 2.5 HDDS and USB sticks.

All I want from C: is to operate everything else with an OS

Cheers
John

[Richard]

The Duke wrote:

If your C and D are on the same drive, why bother. It just confuses some apps etc, with no real benefit. Though I’d be happy to be told differently.

I tend to agree, the best partition is another drive. The best back up is another physical point, external drive, server, cloud or whatever. I do try to make regular images of the main OS drive, it is so much faster to restore in the event of a need. It is a great way to upgrade to a faster, bigger or just a functioning drive.

My server did come with a C: D: split but I never bothered with the D; portion and only ever treat it s a scratch pad area. The drive is very small anyway and the data drives are very much bigger so that is where anything useful is stored.

[Alan Wood]

Partitioning into 2 drives does have some advantages. The main one is that if the D drive is used for all data ie docs, music, photos etc then it does mean that if a major problem with Windows requires a reinstall/reformat from scratch of the C drive then the data is retained unchanged.

 

Yes of course the safest place for a backup is an external or separate internal drive.

[Alan Wood]

PS it probably will not allow the drive to be smaller than 120141 is because there is a system unmoveable file at this point. Possibly a defrag might help .

[Ed P]

The other thing to do is move the M$ links for docs, pics etc locations to D

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