Even in the SSD, Windows 10 will require you to delete partitions existing, if any to proceed with installation. This is why, it is suggested to instal Windows 10 on a physically separate SSD (SSD - Solid State Drive -which is much faster than our conventional Hard Drive with rotating disk). If you have a separate Disk Drive connected, Windows 10 requires you to physically disconnect the Drive and proceed after deleting all the existing partitions (with or without Data). Windows10 will proceed installing only if you delete all the other partitions (with or without Data in it) present in the Drive. Windows 10 will not allow you to perform a clean instal if any other Disk with or without partitions in it is kept connected to the system. Windows 10 is not like Windows 7 or Windows 8. Actually, your plan appears good, but unfortunately, it is not practical because of the following reasons. For simplicity's sake lets assume 2 TB = 2000 GB)Ĭ: (150 GB) for the OS, save files, and some programsĬlick to expand. This is roughly what I plan to do, the numbers won't be exact, because of the way computers handle disk space. With that last paragraph in mind that gives me about 150GB, is that too much or too little? Plus some free space for memory dumps and page files, so 28-30GB? plus some space for documents and save files (lots of games save to user's document folder, there's no way around this), right now on my current machine, my users directory is using 40GB, so maybe allow 100GB for that? With 2TB to play with, how should I distribute the partitions? It's a 64-bit system with 8 GB of RAM.

2) When running other OSes (like Linux) from another disk, I could mount my music without all the other (unreadable) files. It was useful in 2 situations: 1) When I had to reinstall windows, I only needed to format the C part and kept my other files on the disk undisturbed.

On my Windows 7 (formerly Vista) machine I partitioned a 1 TB drive into quarters because 2009 me thought 1 TB was too big to be a disk on it's own. C: would be where I would install the OS and keep all Windows related files, D: would contain all multimedia files (pictures, videos, music, audio, etc.), and E: would be where I would install all my games and programs. I plan on partitioning my disk into 3 partitions. I'm doing a clean installation of Windows 10 on a 2 TB hard drive.

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