I just make it my C as one big partition and same for other drives. There was some dalliance with partitioning a while back, some continue to do so. Backup is more troublesome and it's not any protection from malware. Again your choice.
Bob
So I bought a new 256 gb SSD and was going install it as an extra drive. What I was wondering, since I game alot, should I install it as my main drive C: to use with my operating system or as an extra drive with just games running from it???
I have a couple year old pc with win 7, quad core phantom. When I built it, I used a very good 1 terabyte drive and partitioned it ((Local Disk C: with OS 100 gb)) and ((Sec Volume E: 833 gb)) I keep the disk (C
lean with 65 of 100gb used for OS and few programs. Meanwhile the Sec disk (E
keeps all of my games, videos, music, etc. I run no games from disk C and run them from the partitioned disk E.
I have no complaints from the speed of my OS or boot up times, etc The speed of my machine now is very satisfying. Question is ?
-Would I gain the best benefit from moving my OS over to the new SSD or just move all of my games over to the SSD and make it drive (F) for example and just play them from there?
-Would there be any downside from just using the SSD as an extra drive? instead of the main drive or having the main drive still yet a hdd 7200rpm?
-the SSD came with some cloning software, If I do need to move the current OS to it, do people have many problems?
So that is it, any help be much appreciated. and Thank You.

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