New 1TB HDD Partition help


  1. BlackChmip
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    Windows 10 Pro
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    New 1TB HDD Partition help


    Hello everyone,

    I need your help in setting up new hard drive. I am using 120 GB samsung ssd with 1 single primary partition in which i have windows 10 installed. I have bought another HDD of 1TB and created 4 partition to store data. After creating partition, i saw 3 primary partition and 1 logical partition.


    New 1TB HDD Partition help-partition-fix.jpg

    Please check it yourself. I only use ssd for my OS installation and on my HDD, i just want to store data, that's it.

    Please check the screenshot and let me know if these partitions on HDD is ok.

    Thanks a lot
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  3. Margister
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    Windows 10 x64
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    It makes little sense to have completely separate partitions for different types of files - just create one partition on your 1TB drive and make individual folders inside
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  4. Cliff S
    Posts : 27,181
    Win11 Pro, Win10 Pro N, Win10 Home, Windows 8.1 Pro, Ubuntu
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    Looks good to me.
    If you use OneDrive too, you could also place it's folder on the HDD too, that's what I did, because I have OneDrive synced between 2 PC's and 2 virtual machines, so data is being deleted and written all the time.
    Option 7 in this tutorial: OneDrive - Unlink in Windows 10 - Windows 10 Forums
    I have 3 disks installed(2 SSD's and HDD)
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  6. Grizzly
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    looks ok to me. If you do not need more than 4 partitions on the HDD you can make 4 primary partitions. If you want to add another partition beside the 4 you already have, you always can add in the logical partition (gotta reduce the one you have though). Primary partitions are limited to 4, while logical are only limited by the letters of the alphabet AFAIK....
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