How to create a new virtual disk

[namejj]

After some screw-ups with my pc's windows (ended up dual booting, totally unwanted), I am left now with one single windows 7, and also with only 1 space disk, which is the local disk C. So basically, now i have 1 420 GB disk C, and no disk D. Is this bad? And if it is, how do I create a new disk D, and move all my data from C to D. The final result should be having 1 disk C with max of 30 GB and 1 disk D with max 420 GB.

 

[rgd1101]

30gb for windows 7? and 420gb c drive is not that big.

 

[namejj]

By "bad" I did not mean to ask if it is small or big. I meant if is it good for my PC performance, having all my memory on the local disk? I heard the local disk has to be as free as possible.

 

[Captain_WD]

Hey there namejj,

First for the Windows partition, it is recommended that you have at least 60GB of a partiton (C drive). After you install Windows 7 and all drivers and updates, it takes approximately 20GB and you'd want some free space there for future updates, drivers and other system files. I would strongly recommend you leave at least 60GB for your OS.

Concerning the partitions, you can go to your Disk Management (you can find out how here: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/create-format-hard-disk-partition#create-format-hard-disk-partition=windows-7 ) and see how much allocated and unallocated space you have. I would suggest backing up your data before relocating and partitioning your drive because you might lose important data. There you can choose the partition size of your C and change it, and then do a second partition to utilize the rest of the drive and reassign a letter to it.

Keep me posted on how this is resolving,

Captain_WD.