How to properly partition a large-capacity hard disk

Q: I bought a Hitachi SATAⅡ500GB large-capacity hard drive, but the hard disk capacity is too large for future maintenance, such as formatting, disk defragmentation, antivirus scan, check bad way, etc., are very time-consuming. Can you tell me how to properly partition the large capacity hard disk?

A: Many people in the hard disk partition, do not pay attention to zoning plan planning, in fact, good zoning plan can make each partition "maximize", while maintaining the best performance of the hard disk.

C disk is generally a system partition, some friends like to partition the system is very large, in fact, this is a waste, because from the point of view of optimization, it is recommended to store a lot of data to other partitions, Dong Master think C disk does not have too much, for Windows XP, 20GB or so enough, You can use the FAT32 partition format.

D disk can be used to store cached files, temporary files, etc., in general, 8~10GB can, using the FAT32 partition format, modify the system virtual memory file path, ie cache path, temporary file path, and so on, these easily lead to system partition fragmentation of the data storage path to this cache partition, To improve the performance of the system partition. Then according to your actual needs to separate a number of partitions, used to store software, data, games, and so on, the actual needs of different users are different, so the zoning scheme is not the same.

It is noteworthy that a partition with a FAT32 file system, the maximum can not exceed 32GB. You can divide a 32GB partition to save a software program or a game or something. For DVD video processing, storage of HDTV movies, and so on, requires a relatively large NTFS partition, the use of the NTFS file system, because the FAT32 file system has a limit: Single file volume can not exceed 4GB. The zoning scheme mentioned above is just a guideline, you can adjust the partition capacity or increase the partition according to your own situation.