First of all, the partition side has some threshold limitation above which you cannot extend it. Though Windows provides an inbuilt Disk Management service that lets you shrink and extend partitions, it’s very limited in its approach. One for the system, the drive which acts as the primary drive with Windows and other programs installed on it, and the other partition for your data like music, movies and photos. Hence it is recommended to use at least two data partitions (you may use more than that though). Also, there’s no way to copy data from one partition to another when there’s only one partition, which is something you might need to do while doing troubleshooting tasks. Like, if your main OS partition gets corrupted, you’d loose every single data on your computer if there’s only one partition. It is always advisable to create more than one data partition on Windows systems for a variety of reasons. But, turns out that this isn’t the ideal setup for your hard drive. The first partition takes up pretty much all of the hard disk space and is named as System or OS, and the second one is the Recovery partition which is can act as a lifesaver if there’s some serious problem with your computer. Whenever we purchase a new Windows desktop or a laptop, most of the time it comes with two default hard disk partitions. While talking about the top 10 applications to install on a new computer, the application that topped our list was Easeus Partition Master.

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