About the Partitions of your Hard Disk Drive
Default disk space allocation
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About the Partitions of your Hard
Disk Drive
In
My Computer
or
Windows Explorer
, you may have noticed the
My Computer
availability of two drives (C: and D:): your hard disk drive comes from the factory with
2 logical partitions: this does not mean that your computer contains two physical hard
disks.
Default disk space allocation
When you start using your notebook computer, your C: drive contains all the files
required by Windows and other pre-installed software, while the D: drive comes
empty. The D: drive is the ideal storage space for all your documents, especially big
ones like digital motion pictures captured with DVgate.
While you can perform a
system recovery and change
the partition settings in order
to have one C: drive only, this
option is not recommended for
using video editing
applications like DVgate. For
more information, see the
DVgate online help
(Recommended settings topic).