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Advice on partitioning drives with existing data and new drives

Hi,

We would like to know what do you recommend for a 1TB, 2TB, 3TB drives as to partitioning it in multiple drives.  All our computers have 1TB hard drives installed.  Also all of them have external drives drives connected to them (2TB or 3TB ).  Last night a colleague suggested to partitioning all from the computers internal c-drives and all external drives; this, as he puts it, reduce the probability of data loss if a storage device fails.

Though makes sense, we would like to know is EE  opinion.

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Does Windows 10 has apps that can partition existing working C drives without loosing data?
If Windows 10 has no apps, what is EE recommendations for a partitioning software?

Thank you in advance.
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"... i leave the drives unpartitioned  " ==> EVERY drive is partitioned.   More accurately, you only use one partition per drive :-)
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sorry Garycase - i meant of course that i do not add other partitions
as for rindi's comment - i find that it brings me no advantages; but that's only my opinion
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Hi, thank for the info.  Seems that we are inclining in not to partition our drives, current and new drives.

What about when copying large zip files from the second partition; it takes time because of the OS moving first to the temp folder then the destination folder?

What about performance decreased as the 2d partition is being filled as time passes?

Also the userfile folders and other user specific OS folders, we would have to create some sort of configuration for better performance if using 2d partition?

And pagefiles and hybernation files; should a small C: drive be created only for them, then and D: drive Windows OS and windows apps and finally a E: drive for that data?

Lastly, is it safe to say that the only disadvantage of having 1 partition is when restoring a OS?  (Other than that any backup scheme will suffice data loss)
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Great! Thanx!

Sorry about "Copy", we meant when zipping or rar a file (or any tool that compresses data or manipulates data copying it into some volume etc.).  What we wanted to ask was, if by having multiple partition and doing a zip/rar within the D: drive, would it decrease the speed of the process since when finishing the zip/rar it would copy it from c: temp folder to the destination and delete from tempo folder?

Also, FYI, we use hibernation for all our computers.

Finally, if we use Hyper-V Virtual Machine, and it's residing in D: drive, what disadvantage if any would occur in a multiple partition system?
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Thanx all for your input, greatly appreciated.

To close the question,
Beside the built-in disk management utility in Windows 10 for partitioning, is there another apps EE would recommend for this task of partitioning working C drives without loosing data?
There's no real reason to use anything except the built-in disk management utility;  but for a bit more flexibility, Boot-It BM works VERY well.

Boot-It will allow you to shrink partitions to a smaller size than the built-in disk management will allow;  it can "slide" partitions to let you change their location on the disk; etc.    The main feature I use it for in Windows 10 is when I want to resize a partition and disk management won't let me make it as small as I want to [For some reason, disk management will often not allow you to shrink a partition nearly as much as is possible].

http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/bootit-bare-metal.htm
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Thanx all!  Great Info!