There are many ways to create partition. You can use DOS command
utility FDISK or during Windows setup or with third party tools or using windows built-in COMPUTER MANAGEMENT tool after installing Windows. Partitioning hard disk drive
using COMPUTER MANAGEMENT tool is very easy when compared to partitioning using
FDISK.
For example: If you have 120GB hard disk drive and you
have created only one partition of 40GB during Windows operating system installation.
Remaining 80GB free space can be converted to two more partitions using
COMPUTER MANAGEMENT tool.
Procedure:
Go to START and click on RUN to open RUN command window.
Type " compmgmt.msc " to open COMPUTER MANAGEMENT tool.
On the
left side click on DISK MANAGEMENT option to view the hard disk partitions on
the right side. You will see the partition list along with the file system of
the partition, capacity, free space available and the health of the particular
partition. Usually the partition in which operating system is installed will be
named as HEALTHY (SYSTEM) under the STATUS column.
If you have multiple hard disk drives attached, you can
see all attached hard disk along with partitions.
In the above image you can see two hard disk drives. One
in internal hard disk which is fixed inside CPU and the other is external hard
drive. Here the two hard disk drives are labeled as DISK 0, DISK 1.
The un-partitioned space will be labeled as FREE SPACE. Right-click
on FREE SPACE partition and click on NEW LOGICAL DRIVE to open NEW PARTITION WIZARD.
Click
NEXT to select PARTITION TYPE.
Click NEXT to specify partition size. Assign the
partition size. The partition size is measured in MB (Megabytes). You can
assign the maximum partition size if you are not creating any further
partition.
Click NEXT to assign the partition drive letter and click NEXT to
format the created partition.
You can format the partition using NTFS file
system or FAT32 file system. If you are concerned about security, then format
the partition using NTFS file system. Select QUICK FORMAT and click NEXT to go to final screen.
Click FINISH to complete the task.
