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I have documents, pictures, and videos on different hard drives. How is this going to affect where Windows 10 puts my things?
Not sure about Windows 10, but with Windows 7 if you did a clean install, Windows would install a small hidden partition to a secondary drive. When I tried to use Windows backup to make an image file of my OS drive, it wanted to include the entire drive where the hidden partition was located, which made making an image file way huger than it had to be. So from that time forward, I physically unplug my secondary storage drives when installing Windows. After Windows if up and running, I plug in the other drives.
Okay. So it looks like the folders path will stay the same. Do I still need to go in and change the path in the storage section under system?
Not sure about Windows 10, but with Windows 7 if you did a clean install, Windows would install a small hidden partition to a secondary drive. When I tried to use Windows backup to make an image file of my OS drive, it wanted to include the entire drive where the hidden partition was located, which made making an image file way huger than it had to be. So from that time forward, I physically unplug my secondary storage drives when installing Windows. After Windows if up and running, I plug in the other drives.
I did an upgrade 7 to 10 recently and it shrunk the C partition and created a 450MB "Recovery Partition".only if doing a clean install. Doing an upgrade install retains existing settings/partition types/etc
I like to have one system partition with everything on it and always the same size (makes backups/restores a bit simpler). The system reserved partition size has changed with different Windows versions.But what's the point of not having it?
As long as you do an upgrade to 10, it will incorporate all your drive setups. If you do a clean install, you may have some work to do.