What is Disk Partitioning
Disk
Partitioning is actually the creation of one or more regions in the secondary
storage, So that each region can be accessed and managed separately.
Almost
all external hard drives comes already formatted and partitioned but you may
need multiple partitions for your day-to-day activities, you may need to delete
or shrink the existing structure of the hard drive. Disk management in Windows
7 makes that possible for you to do through. The following steps below helps
you achieve this.
Step 1: Connect your external
hard drive to your computer through the use of USB cable.
Step 2: Click on the “Start”
button and type “diskmgmt.msc” and press Enter.
Another
way to locate the disk management.
a. click
the “Start” button
b. click
on “Control Panel”
c. click
on “System and Security” option
d. Click
on “Create and format hard disk partitions” under Administrative tools.
Step 3: On the existing partition,
right-click and select “Shrink Volume” if you have files on the disk and let Windows
choose the maximum amount of shrinkage and select “Shrink” but if you don’t have
any files on the disk you can select “Delete Volume” to remove the partition.
Step 4: On the Unallocated or Free Space of the external drive
Right-click and select “New Simple Volume”.
Step 5: In the “Simple Volume Size in MB” field, Type in the size of
the megabyte you desired. If you only want to create a single additional
partition, click "Next" to use the default, maximum size. Converting gigabyte
into megabyte, you have to multiply by 1,024, e.g 20GB X 1,024 = 20,240MB.
Step 6: Select
"Next" to let Windows assign an available drive letter.
Step 7: Select the "File System" drop-down list and select
"FAT32" or "NTFS", then click "Next."
Step 8: Select "Finish" to partition the drive.
Step 9: You
can repeat the partitioning procedure to create additional partitions if
required.
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