Windows 10: How should I partition my HDD disk for Windows 10?

I always used the entire disk for my installation but I heard that I should make two disks:

1) for the system itself.

2) for software ( games, programs etc.. )

My HHD is 1TB, is the true what I wrote above? Also how big should be the above partitions?

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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

 

Windows 10 Home has created an extra partition (Local disk 'F'), for why?

It looks to me like F is a left over partition from the HDD's previous life. F is the primary partition and G is only a logical partition. F could have also been a hidden system partition that Win 10 is just now giving a drive letter.

If there is nothing on the HDD yet, then I'd use diskpart to clean it to get rid of both the partitions and then use disk management to create a single partition.

Also, 50GB is really too small for a Windows 10 C drive.

 

Sudden automatic appearance of disk partition on Windows 10

Hi,

Please let us know, if you have made any changes prior to this issue.

I suggest you to remove the partition and check.

To delete an existing partition from Windows 10:

• Follow the instructions from step 1 to 5 from the above section.
• From the right pane of the Disk Management section, right-click the volume (partition) that you want to delete.
• From the context menu that appears, click Delete Volume.

Hope this information helps.

Regards,

Guru Kiran