Installed Samsung F3 1TB internal Hard drive configuration partition

Hi,
Have just installed a Samsung 1tb internal hard drive and now it comes to formatting and partitioning it not sure what amount of gb and how many partitions to do. I have all my itunes music and films stored on an external 1tb hard drive for information, and also have an external 320 gb drive for back ups. So any ideas what to do with the partitions and gb on the internal drive.

There will be a lot of views on how the drive should be partitioned, so I will offer my opinion, and state it is only one opinion.
Take a look at the amount of space you have been using for your operating system, are you planning on upgrading the OS, and then set a partition for only the OS. Make it large enough to allow for future upgrades, maybe 30-40 GB larger than needed so there is enough space for doing installs.
Keep a partition large enough for all of your software, maybe have that be most of the remainder of the drive after the OS partition.
Since you keep music, etc., on an external drive it should be easy to keep the internal drive in good shape and unfragmented.
You could set a partition for temporary files, the /tmp file system, but it is easy to fill that up with a lot of web surfing and get yourself in trouble on space.
Anyway, my view is a good size partition to allow for OS and future OS installs, and the rest for software.
Ralph

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          I made a mistake in installing 32 bit windows seven in the first place, because I did not take "64 bit ready" literally and assumed that some type of upgrading was needed.
       When I was approached about the video work I began to upgrade the system by installing more Ram (originally only had 2gb DDR3) but after installing the Ram found that 32 bit windows seven will only use 3 GB Ram, but that 64 bit windows seven will utilize more Ram. I also am contemplating purchasing Adobe Premier 6.0 which I believe needs 64 bit windows.
    Even though I am currently only using one third of the original 1 TB hard drive, I would also like to use the second hard drive for backup and or storage. I like having multiple backup options and currently use several external hard drives, one for a clone of my entire system, another for incremental backups and still one more for weekly "drag and drop" backups.
My thoughts were:
       1) To install windows seven 64 bit on a partition in the second hard drive and use another partition on that hard drive for backups and/or storage
      2) To install windows seven 64 bit on the first hard drive as a second operating system (leaving windows 32 bit also) and use the second hard drive as a backup and/or storage drive
      3) To install windows 64 bit as the only operating system on the first hard drive and use the second drive as backup/storage
        I am not really an expert at all of this and have made some monumental msitakes in the past that have cost me weeks of down time, so am really trying to avoid making mistakes or having regrets about how I set the system up.
                                                                                                       Thanks in Advance!

Hi Bob,
       Thanks for the quick reply, and no, I don't really have a particular reason to keep the 32 bit o/s, other than a fear of messing up when doing a clean install of the 64 bit. I think that's why I wanted someone elses opinion...I had a sneaking suspicion that I was going about it the wrong way.
      I guess the next step is just to do fresh backups and figure out how to migrate everything.
                                                                                                                     Lee

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