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I have recently brought a new laptop which has one 500gb hard drive and I would like to partition the main partition into two partitions. One for system and one for documents/music/photos... would shrinking this main partition using the built in partitioning tool achieve this?
Also would defragging allow all the free space to be used if I chose to partition the hard drive in this way? as currently it only allows about half to be used.
Is partitioning a hard drive in this way good? What are your suggestions?
+1 Yes, definitely two partitions is a very good thing. It's disappointing PC manufacturers still won't deliver PCs like this; leaving you to wave goodbye to your documents if you have to use the recovery disc is ridiculous. However, you should still back up before using a partition resizer, because they're not always 100% solid. – bobince – 2010-01-05T03:04:09.057