![]() If there were good reasons to create a separate data partition, the installer would offer it - why should Microsoft let you install Windows in a way that creates problems? Microsoft's own installer defaults to creating a single, large C: drive. Nowadays, there is generally no reason not to use a single, large C: partition. See for example Does NTFS performance degrade significantly in volumes larger than five or six TB?, which explains that even terabyte-sized partitions are not usually a problem. However, all modern Windows installations use NTFS instead, which solved these problems. In older Windows versions, there were performance problems with large drives (more accurately: with large filesystems), mainly because the FAT filesystem used by Windows did not support large filesystems well. They would argued this runs PC at optimum speed ![]() Windows' main partition (C drive) extremely small compared to the In my jobs almost two decades ago, IT experts would keep the size of ![]()
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