Sometimes, people may need to partition a hard drive in Windows 7, 8, 10 for the following 2 purposes. But it is ricky because once the partition encounter an issue, all the data can be lost or corrupted. And separate partitions on your disk don't affect each other, and provide better security for your system and data. Next, we will guide you on how to partition a hard drive in windows 7, 8, 10, without formatting.
There are two methods of partitioning a hard drive listed on this part. A MBR disk supports only 4 primary partitions at most, or 3 primary partitions plus 1 extended partition, while a GPT disk can create primary partitions. Step 1. Step 2. And you will see all the disks and partitions demonstrated on the Disk Management window.
And enter an amount of space that will be the maximum size of the new partition. To simplify the whole process, we applied EaseUS partition manager software - Partition Master to help you initialize the disk and partition it in a quick guide. If you are experienced in setting up computers and manage hard drives, you can also apply disk management to make it show up on the computer.
In a word, installing and setting up a new disk on your computer is not complex. Follow this DIY guide to optimize your computer performance now. It makes it way easier to play out what will happen after you've made all the changes. I also think the overall look and feel of EaseUS Partition Master Free makes whatever you're doing with your computer's partitions easy. Partition Master Free can Resize, Move, Merge, Migrate, and Copy disks or partitions; convert to local, change label, defragment, check and explore partition; and much more.
A premium upgrade adds free tech support and the ability to resize dynamic volumes. It won't hot image your drives or align them, but since it's coupled with a partition manager, it allows you do perform many tasks at once, instead of just cloning drives.
You can move partitions around, resize them, defragment, and more, along with the other tools you'd expect from a cloning tool. In the example in the picture the C: drive is used. Note: There may be a partition named System Reserved.
It is not recommended that you alter this partition at all. Shrink the drive. Then click on the Shrink button. In this example the drive is shrunk by MB or 10 GB.
Note: You cannot shrink your volume greater than the amount indicated in the Size of available shrink space in MB section. Create a new volume. You should now see a new unallocated partition in your Disk Management window. Right-click on the unallocated partition and select the New Simple Volume option. The New Simple Volume Wizard. The New Simple Volume Wizard should popup.
Click on the Next button to continue. Enter size of new partition. Enter the amount of memory you wish to allocate for your new partition and click on the Next button. In the example in the picture, the maximum memory available is allocated to the new volume. Note: You cannot make your new volume larger than the maximum amount of memory available.
Give the new volume a letter name or path. The letter name chosen for the example in the picture is A: The letter name or path is used by Windows to identify and navigate to your new volume. Settings for the new volume. Click on the Perform a quick format Then click on the Next button. Create the new volume. Look over your settings and click on the Finish button. Format the new volume. You will get a popup asking you to partition your new drive. Click on the Format disk button.
A new window will popup. Keep the settings and click on the Start button. Click OK. If not, your system will be unable to boot next time. If it supports, click Yes. Step 3. Then, you will back to the main interface, and you will see the disk has already became GPT disk. Click "Apply" to submit. Wait till the proceed complete. Then, you can specify the partition size, drive letter, file system, partition type of your new partition.
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