Advice for 450/456 Hard Disk Partition

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Palcouk,

What minimum size would make sense for the Windows partition? Assuming that the two partitions would be for 1 Windows & Apps and 2 user data files.  I was thinking of about 50GB as well [ignoring my data files, I use about 33GB for Windows & applications].

I've been pondering the same issue as I'd like to make disk images of the Windows drive [50GB or whatever] but with my data files [200GBish] on a separate partition backed up externally in a normal incremental way.  The thought of making regular disk images of a single 250GB lump puts me off the idea of images completely - 12 hours making the image each time.  I could live with making a disk image weekly that only took 2 hours.

I appreciate your comment about recovery facilities.  If there was a fatal error that the system image could not fix then the PC makers restoration facilities might override the changes depending on their structure.

If C is the win drive 50gb is too small.

There is generally little sense in partitioning what is not a particularly large drive, particularly if any created partition is to be used as a backup partition

If this is a preinstalled version of win, with recovery disks provided by the PC maker, the use of said recovery disks will destroy any partitions that have been created.

Very carefully.  ;-)

Do your own homework.

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Please describe the best way to partition a 450/456 GB Hard Disk , such a way that Drive C: should be 50 GB and the rest 3 drives equally.