Paragon Partition Manager 'Community Edition' doesn’t contain much more functionality, although it does ship with recovery disc builder, so you can fix your machine if you experience problems partitioning a drive. This free software is designed for home users who just want to create, delete or re-size existing partitions. If you just want to create a simple partition or re-size existing partitions, you may not require expensive professional-level partitioning software, hence Paragon Partition Manager 'Community Edition'. You might want a partition for your media.įormatting a drive is easy in Windows, partitioning is more difficult. A partition for Windows is a cert and another for your data is likely.
Once you format your drive, you need to configure it for your computer. Problem is that new hard drives either ship pre-configured with multiple partitions, with the manufacturer thinking they know how you need your drive, or with no partition at all.
If you have a small old hard drive, why not purchase an SSD? An SSD is almost certain to be faster and more efficient than the old hard drive, primarily as it has no moving parts.
If you only have 4GB of system memory, considering doubling this to 8GB. You don’t necessarily need to go out and buy a new machine, there are cheaper options. There are various ways of upgrading your computer.
