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My laptop has no room for a second hard drive so can I make a second partition on my SSD drive just for windows so that I can boot off of it as I want a faster boot up.

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No there is no basis for that belief. As long as the drive is less than say 90% full it will be fine. SSDs are not as sensitive to being filled up as mechanical hard drives, they index and locate data completely differently than a spinner drive and that's why you never defrag an SSD...no need and wears it out prematurely. If you split it into 2 partitions you have to keep both partitions less than 90% full which means you actually lose useable space. 

 

Is your SSD not booting up fast? 

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What model is this? You would not gain any space by making a partition on a drive you aleady have so I am not understanding what you want to accomplish. 

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The Laptop is a Pavillion 15-au062 and want to split of the SSD drive so that I can store my Data on one partition and boot off of the other wich would make the SSD boot up fast like it should other wise if I only had one SSD drive the drive it would make a slower boot with the DDS being all cluttered  up with Data.

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No there is no basis for that belief. As long as the drive is less than say 90% full it will be fine. SSDs are not as sensitive to being filled up as mechanical hard drives, they index and locate data completely differently than a spinner drive and that's why you never defrag an SSD...no need and wears it out prematurely. If you split it into 2 partitions you have to keep both partitions less than 90% full which means you actually lose useable space. 

 

Is your SSD not booting up fast? 

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