Well, this was an interesting foray into Windows 7. I just purchased a new laptop and didn’t like the way the hard drive was partitioned. Why partition an NTFS drive at all? The manufacturer had created an 80 GB primary partition with a 420 GB extended partition. Of course the OS and user profiles are stored on the relatively small primary partition. This I did not like. I put a lot of music on my laptop, along with my development projects and multimedia files. 80 GB just won’t cut it. I could have purchased 3rd party software to repartition the drives (Win 7’s built in tool won’t do the job here) but I didn’t want to do that. The solution? Move the files to the d: drive and create a symbolic (hard) link to new location.

Read More→