Partition Hard disk drive

Hard Disk Partitioning

Disk Partitioning is dividing hard disk drive into multiple disks to treat one large physical disk drive as if it were multiple disks.

Advantages of Disk Partition:

1. Use of multi-boot setups, which allows to have and operate more than one operating system on a single computer.
2. The access time with smaller file systems is efficient when compared to big Master File System with a single Master File Table(MFT).

How to Partition Hard disk drive step-by-step process

Step 1:  Go to START and right click on Computer and select Manage.
Step 2:
1. A window similar to the below one opens, select Disk Management on the left side of the window toolbar.
2. Select the hard disk (C in this case) you want to partition.
3. Right click as shown on the hard drive (c).
4. Select Shrink Volume.

Step 3:
Enter the amount you want to shrink in MB (Example: if you want to partition 100GB from the hard drive, enter the amount to shrink as 102400 MB since 1GB = 1024 MB) and click Shrink.

Step 4:
After the hard disk had partitioned, we need to label that. Right click on the partitioned hard drive to select New Simple Volume.

Step 5: New Simple Volume wizard opens
1. Click Next and specify Volume size and Click Next.
2. Assign Drive Letter or Path(here you can select any letter you want)
3. Format Partition, where you can specify Volume Label (ie., name the partitioned hard disk space).

Once you click Finish, the hard disk is partitioned and labelled.