How to partition hard drive a step by step guide

How to partition hard drive

Ever wondered how to partition hard drive? It always seems a daunting task until the IT guy comes and does it for you in a matter of minutes and your left like, how fast! Is it that easy?

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What’s a Hard-drive

This is the storage device that store digital data within the computer. They come in various types such as SATA and IDE latest technology now is the SSD hardrive technology.

with more and more people particularly the novice tech users, getting more confused by SATA, IDE and event the difference between SSD and HDD disk technology.

What is hard drive partition.

In order to learn how to partition hard drive, we need to understand what’s all about. When you visit your’’ my computer window’’ you get to see the likes of Disk C, Disk E, Disk D: these are partitions of physical hard drive.

You can take the hard drive to be like one big warehouse which is then divided into different store rooms to handle different kinds of items.

Why should you partition hard disk?

Better Data organization

With a partition drive, you can better arrange data within your computer. This ensures that one disk is for windows installation files, while the other files can be used to store other personal data.

Cyber Threats Reduction

Ever been infested with bugs and viruses to the point that only a clean installation of you windows will sort you out alone. This gives your data a chance of survival in case you need to format you C drive alone to re-install windows OS.

Run Multiple OS on PC/Laptop

One can use different partition of the machine to install more that one operating system and dual boot in case you want to use one OS tech over the other

Data Back-up & Recovery

With a partition hard drive, back up is required to keep data more organized and secure in case needed to be used later on.

Steps to partition a hard disk drive on windows 10/8/7

Beginning from windows 7 and later systems, they have in built partition tools, (you can still partition disk during OS installation) the disk management tool.

In order to partition hard drive, we need to shrink the existing partition or space left after installation.

Step 1: hit start menu and search for disk management.

Step 2: click create and format hard disk partitions from the match results

Step 3. Check the columns at the bottom. Right-click the partition that has extra space, then choose Shrink volume

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Step 4. Enter the amount of space to shrink, then click Shrink. Once it is done, a new unallocated column will appear.

Step 5. Right-click the unallocated volume and choose New Simple Volume

Step 6. Follow the New simple volume setup wizard. The default settings are usually fine.

Step 7. Now you should get a new partition on your hard drive.

What to note

• If already existing an unallocated space, then you can skip the step 3 and 4

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