My apologies if this a silly question - but that's why I'm asking for help... also, i am in Madrid, Spain. Thank you all for the fantastic website/forum - it's better than anything we have over here...!!

I'm setting up a new hd on Win10 / my first time / I decided to partition 240 gb into 3 (30-30-180 or so)
C: is my current OS
T: is a clone/backup of a fresh/clean OS
X: is bulk storage

again, this is my first time doing this / if you have any suggestions on strategy or how to better do this, please weigh in - I have a wife and 2 small kids who often cause my OS problems (virus/malware, whatever, etc) so I was thinking that I could clone the current OS in it's "virgin" state, so that WHEN the kids foul up the working OS, I can simply replace it with the virgin version... (I also have this "virgin version" backed up on an external drive)

ISSUE: Please kindly have a look at my screen shot - 2 things jump out at me, that suggest I've made a mistake....

1.
my drives are yellow, as opposed to blue or black... they don't look right to me.... is that a problem? Should I / How do I correct this?

2.
My X: drive looks to be split into to 2 parts... Should this be done differently? How can I get them back into 1 piece?

Again - thank you very much...

30GB isn't big enough for the OS. you will fill it up with the install, the temp files, the hiberfile.sys etc etc and windows will be unstable. No need to partition the drive up so much. You just limit yourself. Much better to use folders and manage it properly.

I would start again. during windows install, choose custom. then disk options. delete all partitions and then don't make any. just choose the disk and "next" windows will do it for you. a disk that small chopped up will just cause issues.

Hi and welcome to the forum.
I agree with HaQue. I think you should use this drive just for the OS and use another drive for data storage, backups etc.
That way, if your OS drive gets corrupt you can replace it without much fuss; if your second drive gets damaged, well you should have backups

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And in case you're wondering it's yellowish green instead of blue because the drive is set to dynamic. Nothing to worry about.

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