Wishes to partition your hard drives? But, partitioning a drive in
windows will needed us to format the drive. In this tutorial, I will
teach you how to partition a drive without need to backup your data and
format your drives. You might wonder if this trick need you to
downloadsome softwares or tools. Do not worry because this trick is 100%
download-free. We just gonna use a built in windows tool.
This
trick had been tested on Windows7 and Vista. I'm not sure that this
trick will work onwindows XP. This trick allows you to partition any
drive including system drives.
Okay, first of all open Run dialog
box ( Start > Run ). Type in "diskmgmt.msc" without the quotes in
the text box. Wait until Disk Management window pop up. It may take a
few seconds to load. After it’s fully loaded, go to Storage > Disk
management at the left sidebar. Now you could see a list of storage
devices that are currently connected to your computer. Now choosethe
drive that you want to partition. Right Click on it and select "Shrink
Volume" option from menu.
The system will search for
available space in your selected disk volume. A window will pop up
asking you to wait while it loads. This will not take much longer than
few seconds. Next the Shrink dialog box will pop-up. This is where
you’ll have to specify the volume for next partition. Look at the total
size of available shrink space. Below it, you’ll have to enter the space
to shrink.
To make sure that you not losing any data, shrink
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" from the menu.
After
done shrinking your drive. You can see an unallocated space in your
shrunk drive. But you’ll still not able to access this new drive. You’ll
have to format it and specify the drive letter to access them. Right
click on unallocated drive and choose "New Simple Volume" option.
New
Simple Volume Wizard Window will pop up. Click on "Next" button to
continue. In next window, you’ll have to specify the size for your new
volume. Set full size if you are satisfied with two partitions or you
can divide it again for new partition. Next, choose any drive letter
from the available list and click on "Next" button. In next window,
leave everything as default but make sure it's similar to the screen
below ( If you want to change the volume label, feel free to do it ).
Click
on Finish window to complete the wizard. Go to My Computer and you can
see your new drive. That is all. Hope this tutorial will help you.
Enjoy.