Tutorial on Resizing and Creating multiple partitions
Welcome to my first tutorial. I first got the idea to create this from a thread I had created where the only suggested fix was to increase the size of my partition. You can see some of what I did on that subject
here .
Okay, some people wonder why it is important to partition off a single drive into multiple sections. I do it simply because it is easy enough to do and it makes running virus scans and doing defrags quicker, not to mention, when you get a bad virus and have to reload your OS, it is secluded and you are not forced to format information that you would other have to. These are just a few things that I could think of off-the-top-of-my-head.
So, this is a general overview of what partitioning off your drives requires.
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Requirements for Partitioning a Drive
1. You could use windows partition manager found by going to Control Panel-> System and Security -> Administrative Tools-> Computer Management -> Disk Management. However, I find it much easier to download and install a Program called
EASEUS Partition Master.
2. I personally would not bother partitioning a hard drive under 100 gigabytes.
3. Time as depending on the size and how much information you have in the partition it may task a while.
Okay, now that you have downloaded and installed EASEUS the next step is to open the program and just look around at it. It should look something like
this
however you most likely only have a visible C:/ drive since I have already partitioned off my hard drive.
Now we look at the buttons you should see a button that says
on it in the top left, this one button will do most of the work for you. Clicking on in opens up a new box that looks like this. Take note of the locate on the slider and the amount of room on your C:/ drive.
Mine has 81908MB on it. I plan on cutting mine back to about 40960MB. Also, remember the conversion factor from Gigabytes to Megabytes is 1024MB/1GB. This means that if you want a 100GB C:/ Drive, you need to have a value of around 102,400 MB.
To resize the drive we simply slide the slider we took note of to the left and cut back the amount of space and then we adjust with the up and down arrows located next to the
afterwards.
Now I have cut my partition into a 40GB hunk and now have a 40GB hunk of unallocated space. I will be merging this with my E:/ Storage drive to do this I simply click okay to confirm the action and then I click on the unallocated portion of the drive at the bottom of the screen which looks like this.
Now that I have an unallocated portion I have to assign it a drive letter or shift other partitions so that it is adjacent to the partition I want to merge it with. To create a partition I assign it a drive letter by clicking on the unallocated portion at the bottom of the screen so that it is highlighted, alternatively you can click on the same thing but in the main window
Finally, click the
button in order to pop up another screen that looks like this.
For the sake of space I have already set the "Create As" Portion to primary and the file system should be default as NTFS. You can also decide the size and position on this screen, but I leave these at default.
If you are just creating a new partition then this is where you want to stop!
If you are merging this newly created partition with an already existing partition then continue on.
Now you have two pending option that appear on the left hand side, one is a resize/move while the other is to create a partition. The next step for adding this partition with one that you already have it to under the "Create Partition" portion by clicking the
button in the top left. This will leave you with an unallocated portion again. Now the second to last step.
The second to last step is to drag the other partitions overtop of the unallocated space to move it the space. You do this by selected a partition, like D: (This is my programs partition)
and dragging it overtop of the unallocated space directly next to it. Continue doing this with partitions until it is adjacent (right next to) the partition you want to merge it with, which for me is E:
Now for the final step I select the unallocated portion again and assign it a drive letter by repeating the step that we undid earlier in order to create a new drive again. Then after it is assigned a drive letter, we select the
button at the top of the screen and then tick the drive we want to merge it with, which for me is drive E:
Progress Report:
I suggest selecting whichever is the bigger partition and merging the smaller partition to that so I actually selected E: (It is about 539GB) and merged the partition I just created with it because this save time later on when you restart
The very last step is to restart your computer (Be sure you have about 2 to 3 hours of time free, maybe more, maybe less).
Viola, you have created a new partition on your hard drive! You can also use this program to do many other things, like hide partitions (those of you underage kids who want to hide porn from your parents).