Windows 10: Hard Drive partitioning 1000 GB Windows 10 home

Hello,

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, please help me to partition your Windows 10 home hard drive (how many GBs do I have on partition C and how many GBs I need on the other partitions). How many GB and partitions do I need to have Windows 10 home?
A great day!

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W7 Hard drive partition issue

to get rid of that 100 meg windows partition that setup creates for you on a new install on a blank hdd:

- press shift+f10 when on the partition management screen in setup <-- this opens a command prompt
- diskpart <-- start the windows command line partition management tool
- list disk <--- list the installed hdds in this computer for the next step
- select disk 0 <- might have to replace 0 with the number of the correct disk
- clean <-- this will erase all data on the disk you selected one step up- dont use the wrong disk!
- create partition primary <- creates a primary partition taking up all space on the drive, adjust the command if necessary
- exit, exit to exit diskpart and the command prompt
- click refresh in partition manager and select your newly created partition and install to that

 

PARTITIONING AN EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE

Hi,

Here are the steps:

• Log on to your Windows 10 PC with an administrator account. (The process of creating partitions requires administrative privileges on the computer.)
• Once logged on, click the File Explorer icon from the taskbar.
• From the left pane (navigation pane) of the opened File Explorer window, right-click
  This PC.
• From the context menu, click Manage.
• On the opened Computer Management snap-in, from the left pane, click to select
  Disk Management from under the Storage category.
• From the right pane, right-click the unallocated area of the hard disk drive in which you want to make partitions.
  
  Note: If you have assigned the entirety of the hard drive’s space to the C: drive at the time of installing Windows 10, there will be no unallocated space left in the hard disk drive. If this happens and you still want to create a new partition,
  you must shrink the C: drive by right-clicking it, selecting the Shrink Volume option, and following the on-screen instructions to free up some space and to get the unallocated area.
• From the context menu, click Create Simple Volume.
• On the welcome page of the New Simple Volume Wizard box, click
  Next.
• On the Specify Volume Size page, in the available Simple volume size in MB field, specify the amount of space you want to assign to this new partition. (Make sure to specify the space in megabytes, i.e. 10240 MB for 10 GB. 1 GB
  = 1024 MB.)
• Click Next to continue.
• On the Assign Drive Letter or Path page, leave everything as it is for simplicity, and click
  Next. (If you are an advanced user, you can choose a drive letter of your choice from the available
  Assign the following drive letter drop-down list.)
• On the Format Partition page, choose the settings of your preference. (If you are unsure what to choose, leave the default settings intact.)
• Click Next to proceed.
• On the Completing the New Simple Volume Wizard page, click
  Finish to create a new partition in the hard disk drive.
• Once the partition is created, you can start using it normally.
• Note: Windows 10 may prompt you to format the new partition after it has been created.

Hope this helps. Thank you.

 

Partition or multiple hard drives?

As the title suggests. Is it worth installing say a 36GB drive for the OS soley or partitioning an existing larger drive with either 2 or more partitions? I am currently running Vista 32bit and want to try out 64bit and am sick of reformatting the whole drive. Any suggestions?