I finally pulled the trigger on a new laptop. I can't believe I waited so long.
I partitioned the 1 tb hard drive into a 300 gig partition for Windows & programs, 500 gigs for files, and the rest I didn't need right now, so I just left it as unallocated space. Eventually I might want to install some type of linux on the drive, but now I just don't need to.
My question: should I format the empty space as its own 175 or so GB partition? Will the files on the two partitions already set up, at some point, wander onto that unallocated space, leaving me without a contiguous 175 gig area of my SSD? Or is this impossible to happen?
I partitioned the 1 tb hard drive into a 300 gig partition for Windows & programs, 500 gigs for files, and the rest I didn't need right now, so I just left it as unallocated space. Eventually I might want to install some type of linux on the drive, but now I just don't need to.
My question: should I format the empty space as its own 175 or so GB partition? Will the files on the two partitions already set up, at some point, wander onto that unallocated space, leaving me without a contiguous 175 gig area of my SSD? Or is this impossible to happen?