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Should I Partition my Hard Drive for Data (225 Views)
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Should I Partition my Hard Drive for Data

‎02-03-2012 08:36 AM

My new HP Pavilion dv7 Notebook has a very large HDD, is it recommended that I create a partition to keep data separate from the operating system?, or is ok to use the documents etc. folders set up on the C:  partition.

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Re: Should I Partition my Hard Drive for Data

‎02-03-2012 11:05 AM

Hi,

 

I strongly recommend to keep data files in a separate logical or even physical partition (second HDD). That will save us a lot of times to recover data when we have to rebuild (or reset to factory settings) the machine.

 

Your dv7 can fit a second HDD

 

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BH
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