Before learning How To Create A Partition In Windows 7 it would be a nice idea to learn What does it mean to Partition a hard drive. In fact, partition means dividing memory or mass storage into isolated sections . In DOS systems, we can partition a disk, and each partition will behave like a separate disk drive. Partitioning a hard drive is particularly useful if you run more than one operating system. For example, you might reserve one partition for Windows and another for UNIX. Besides, partitioning on DOS and Windows machines can improve disk efficiency. This is because the FAT system used by these operating systems automatically assigns cluster size based on the disk size: the larger the disk, the larger the cluster. Unfortunately, large clusters can result in a wasted disk space, called slack space. There is an entire sector of the software industry devoted to building utilities that let you partition your hard disk.
Go to Start -> Right Click My Computer -> Manage (look at the image below)
You will see Computer Management window. Now, expand Storage and under it click on Disk Management. You will see something like that:
and now select the Drive you want to partition. For example, in this case I have selected drive D: When you select a drive to partition, right-click on it and from the menu select Shrink Volume:
You will see the window showing you the Size of the Hard drive and the total amount available to Shrink, something like that:
You can enter in the amount you would like to shrink ( This will be the size of the new partition ) It can’t be more than the amount available to you and remember that Approx 1000 Mb = 1 GB. After that click on button Shrink. Depending on the size and amount to shrink it could take a while. Just be patient and once it’s done you will see an unallocated space. Select it and right click on it. Then select New Simple Volume. There are a few steps left. Follow the Wizard that appears and fill in the Size of the Partition. After that assign a drive letter, you can do that by picking up one of your choice. On the Format page, be sure that NTFS is selected and then Enter a name for your Drive – ie. “Music” and click next followed by finish.
You’re done! Now you have a new partition on your hard drive!
Go to Start -> Right Click My Computer -> Manage (look at the image below)
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