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Partition changes - Worth doing?
I am not very tech savvy, so I apologise for not knowing much about this.
I recently fired up an old PC that I haven't used for a while. It is running very slow and I am trying various things to try to improve this. I have done the basics, like clean up the files I have stored, do a defrag and a disk clean up, change the size of the paging file, but there is something else I was considering. I don't know if it would help. I don't know if it would even be possible.
I previously divided my drive into three. I had the C drive (200GB) contains the Windows installation. My D (50GB) drive is where I store most files, other than music files, which I store on my L drive (50GB). I have attached a screenshot of the partitions
I have now moved all of my files, including music, onto a flash drive and was wondering if I can safely delete the partitions D and L and then expand the C drive. I have attached a screenshot of my drive partitions.
A couple of things I am not sure of. I have checked out a few YouTube videos. A couple of things they have said are that you can only do this with contiguous drives. Between my C and D drive, I show 511MB Healthy (Recovery) and a couple of the videos have said never to touch this. However, on all of the videos I have seen, this part has either been before or after all drives, not in the middle. Is this going to cause me a problem?
If I go ahead and do this, producing one larger C drive, is it likely to help with performance or would this just be a waste of my time?
Any help is appreciated
To save you going looking, I am running Windows 10 Home (Version 1803, build 17134.1345). My processor is an AMD Phenom 9150e 1.8GHz