How To Create Partition Of Hard Drive Without Losing Data


How To Create Partition Of Hard Drive Without Losing Data
In Windows 7, there is simple way to do it. Today in this tutorial, I’ll be guiding you through the each and every steps with screenshots. Before starting note that, We can partition any drive, even a system drive We can do it only in Windows, Windows 7 and Vista specifically So let’s divide it.
Go to Start > Right click on My Computer and choose Manage.

Select Disk Management

Select Shrink Volume option from menu.

Disk Volume.

This will not take much longer than few seconds

You must make sure that the size is not below the total size of space taken by files in that drive.
You can check the used space by right clicking on the drive you are going to partition and choose Properties.

Click on Shrink button

But you’ll still not able to access this new drive. You’ll have to format it and specify the drive letterto access them. To do so, continue reading.
Right click on unallocated drive and choose New Simple Volume option.

New Simple Volume Wizard Window will popup.

Click on Next button to continue


In next window, leave everything as default but make sure it’s similar to the screen below:

Go to my Computer to see your new drive ready.
Click on Finish window to complete the wizard.


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