We often have to change and set up our computer, and change some default settings to make it a better partner for our work. Next we will share a method for partitioning the C drive reasonably. Many notebooks used at the factory have only one or two partitions by default. In the face of hundreds of GB of C drives, it is really wasteful (see Figure 1 Note: ThinkPad notebooks usually have only one partition by default). In fact, the Windows 7 system itself has provided a simple hard disk cutting function, which can release the extra space of the C disk. If you feel that your notebook hard disk partition is unreasonable, C disk occupies too much storage resources, you can use the method of this article to "burden" the C drive.
with "compressed volume" to help the C drive to offload
I buy a new ThinkPadE520, for example, in the Start menu, right-click on the first computer, turn into the "Properties → Advanced System Settings → System Protection ” (See Figure 2 for a note: remember to turn off the C drive to restore function before compressing the volume), and turn off the restore function of the C drive. Right click on the computer and click on the "Administration" menu (see Figure 3: Start the computer management program), select "Disk Management" in the list on the left side of the computer management window, and the text will be listed on the right side of the window. The partition status of the current hard disk. The E520 defaults to three partitions, including "Lenovo_Recovery" (for partitions that store one-click restore mirror backups, do not delete or destroy, otherwise one-click restore is gone), "SYSTEM_DRV" (store system and driver files) Partition, do not touch), and the C drive "Windows7_OS" with a capacity of up to 454.82GB is the object of our "burden reduction".
the right mouse button to select the C drive, the pop-up menu, select "compressed volume" (see FIG. 4 Note: Select the C drive "compressed volume" operation), the system automatically calculates the space compressible later The specific information will be listed in the pop-up "Compression C" window. The author's notebook hard drive current C drive capacity is about 460GB, the system allows me to compress (cut) up to 218GB of capacity for the establishment of D drive, E drive and other partitions, in short, the minimum capacity of the C drive will be limited to 247GB (see Figure 5 Legend: The compressible capacity is limited). It is not recommended to modify the value of "Input Compressed Space", just click the "Compress" button to cut the maximum capacity. The space compressed from the C drive will be named after the "unallocated" partition. Right-click on the partition and click on "New Simple Volume" (see Figure 6 for a note: re-partition the compressed space). This part of the space is arbitrarily divided into multiple hard disk partitions such as D disk, E disk, and so on.