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- #HOW TO MAKE SSD ONLY FOR OS INSTALL#
- #HOW TO MAKE SSD ONLY FOR OS FULL#
- #HOW TO MAKE SSD ONLY FOR OS PRO#
The performance reasons (put OS on faster outside part of the disk) have gone, backing up a folder is not harder or easier than backing up a partition.
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I'm really not convinced it is an advantage though to partition - more just old habits. Honestly, 32GB would most likely be OK really. I partitioned it 64GB for C, I'm currently using just going over 24GB (with 15 years of emails stored there). Make an image (in case you want to return it) then clean install.īTW I also have a newish laptop with a 256GB drive and don't play games - it just has Office and a few small programs.
#HOW TO MAKE SSD ONLY FOR OS PRO#
Macrium Home Premium, Revo Pro, Screenspresso Pro Hard Drives: 1TB NVMe PM961 NVMe SSD SAMSUNG (Boot),Īntivirus: Defender, MBAM, SuperAntiSpywareĬanon MX410 series Printer/Fax/Scanner/Copier, PSU: 850W PSU Liquid Cooled Chassis - CyberPower 1500 UPSĬooling: Liquid Cooled - 3 fan - Top exhaust Screen Resolution: 1920 x 1080 x 60 hertz Monitor(s) Displays: Samsung 27" Curved C27F591 Sound Card: Realtek High Definition Audio Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti w/11GB GDDR5X & Intel HD Graphics 630 OS: Multi-boot Windows 10/11 - RTM, RP, Beta, and InsiderĬPU: Intel Core i7-7700K 4.20GHz OC 4.8GHz - Kaby Lake System Manufacturer/Model Number: Alienware Aurora R6
#HOW TO MAKE SSD ONLY FOR OS INSTALL#
Plenty of folks here can help you with that, if you so opt, and there is a tutorial here: Clean Install Windows 10
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You can use that to wipe all partitions and set it up as you wish. Then I start weeding out the dross.Īnother option, depending on your temperament for it, is to do a clean install (dross free) of Win10 as soon as you confirm the current install is activated. Myself, when I (rarely) get a new machine, I do a Macrium image before anything else, to an external drive. Others prefer to keep it as the ultimate fallback option - depends on how much you would like to have the 14.8 GB freed up to do with as you wish. At this point, some would decide to do away with it because the factory restore would include all of the dross you mention. I just wanted to confirm that the Recovery partition will take me back to factory settings?.Yes, that's what it's there for. I now have the new notebook and I see I have 192GB free of the 256GB and I have a Recovery partition D:\ with 1.78GB of 14.8Gb. Macrium Reflect Free is very good at making these images and when you screw up, it will take about 15 minutes to restore back to the moment you made the Image and Complete SSD, not Partitions. I would before making any changes create a disk/SSD complete Image. Adjusting partitions on an SSD not different than on a hard drive, other than my warning to not do any operations on the other partitions on the SSD other than C. With all that said if you want to partition your SSD further do not mess with any of the partitions other than C: you can use any partitioning tools, I personally use Minitool Partition wizard it's quite similar to the original version of "Partition Magic" that I have been using for many years. My notebook has a 512 GB SSD for OS and 1 TB SSD for Data.
#HOW TO MAKE SSD ONLY FOR OS FULL#
I Have 2 computers using 256 GB SSD and I'm more than 50% full more like 75% full on both of them. If your new notebook doesn't have provisions for a 2nd hard drive/SSD you going to have issues. Your OS and Programs install should be on the C:\ partition, data and library files can surely be stored on a 2nd drive. However, a 256GB SSD is pretty much minimal in today's world.