In this tutorial you will find
how to create a new partition/drive in the Hard disk of
Windows operated PC. You
won’t need any 3rd party software, rather we will use built in Windows
Disk Management utility to do the job. Follow the steps below to create a new partition in 5 minutes.
Creating New Partition/Drive by Disk Management:
First press
Windows+
R button together to open Run command window. Type
diskmgmt.msc in the box and press
Enter or click
OK. In a while, you will see all the available drives & partitions in the
Disk Management window.
Now
first you will have to determine the partition, from which you want to
take a certain amount of free space, by shrinking the drive by the same
amount. Here we want to shrink
G-Drive to make the new partition. So, click the right mouse button on the drive name and click
Shrink Volume.
In the new window it will show you how much space you can free up from the drive.
Enter the amount you want to free up for your new drive
in the box indicated. Then click
Shrink. Now wait, Windows is doing its job.
After a while, you will see that amount of
Free space or
Unallocated Space in the
Disk Management window. The
G-Drive also reduced by the same amount.
Now we have to create a new volume/drive/partition from the free space.
Right click on the free space box and click
New Simple Volume.
Click
Next in the
New Simple Volume Wizard.
In the next window you can set how much of free space you want to utilize for the new drive/partition.
Enter the maximum available space in the box
to use the whole free space. Click .
Next
Assign a letter for the drive from the list of available drive letters. Click
Next.
Don’t change anything here if you don’t know. Then click
Next.
In the next Window you will see the
summery of our choices that you made. Click
Finish. In a few seconds you will find a
New Volume in the
Disk Management window.
Close the Window. That’s the end. You can use it now for your purpose.
