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    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.
    Quote Originally Posted by 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).

    DISCLAIMER: I am not responsible for you misclicking and formatting portions of your hard drive and resulting in loss of data or data corruption. This is only a basic tutorial for the use of the EASEUS program and I did my best to explain every step in detail, please, feel free to PM me with questions or to post with questions and comments and concerns! Also, I wrote this guide over a month ago and have had difficulties in posting it, so I may be rusty on exact portions of this guide.
    Last edited by Hazzah; 07-11-2012 at 05:55 AM.

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    So my laptop has a solid state hard drive with a regular hard drive, I want to separate them? How would I go about that, when I got the laptop it was already combined but I am fairly confident there are two physical hard drives.




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    I though if you re-sized a disk partition you are most likely going to have a data failure and loose the partition? Or am I just completely wrong?

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    Quote Originally Posted by R4nd0m View Post
    So my laptop has a solid state hard drive with a regular hard drive, I want to separate them? How would I go about that, when I got the laptop it was already combined but I am fairly confident there are two physical hard drives.
    That really depends on how much information you have on your hard drives. I would suggest that you do this in multiple steps depending on how much information is on either hard drive. You are obviously going to want the SSD to remain as your boot drive.

    My suggestion is to start up EaseUS and see how much is used on the SSD and how much is used on the other drive.

    Because I only have one disk it shows up as disk one MBR (Master Boot Record- means it boots to this disk). This is most likely the SSD, if not then you need to ghost the OS to the SSD for faster boot times, which is itself a whole other tutorial. However since it is most likely the SSD that is the MBR you will want to resize the partition to the size of your SSD (only if you have less data than the size of your SSD) so that you disconnect the two drives. Then on the other empty space you should make a partition and label it as storage or whatever it is going to be use mainly for.

    This should work, but I have never run into this, I did not know that you could have cross disk partitions.

    Quote Originally Posted by GOOGLE View Post
    I though if you re-sized a disk partition you are most likely going to have a data failure and loose the partition? Or am I just completely wrong?
    You have to resize the partition to about 100MB larger than the current amount that it holds. This should leave all of your information placed correctly in the partition, if you make it smaller (which EASEUS wont allow you to) then it will corrupt and probably lose all data in the partition. You can however use this to recover partitions as well that have been lost

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    Really cool tutorial +rep. Going to give this a crack tomorrow when I'm a little more awake because this seems extremely useful for me

    If I run into any problems/queries I'll be sure to contact you

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    Thanks p1ng. It's a really simple program to use unlike some of the other tutorial I may be writing (like possibly how to create your fist 3D box in autocad or inventor).

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    g parted all the way but i must say man that there is absolutely no warranties... most likely repartitioning an active partition eg.'windows' will and most definitely result in system instability and huge performance losses...
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    Quote Originally Posted by m3gaman3g3nd View Post
    g parted all the way but i must say man that there is absolutely no warranties... most likely repartitioning an active partition eg.'windows' will and most definitely result in system instability and huge performance losses...
    Not true. While there are not "warranties" as you put it, repartitioning your C:/ drive will not cause "system instability" or any other issues. If you don't make your C:/ drive to small then you will have no issues. As you can see, I cut my C:/ drive in half (after making it twice as big) with no ill effect on my system, processing power, no crashes, ect.

    In short, repartitioning your system is perfectly safe and is probably more healthy than just having a single large partition.

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    not true man resizing a partion grows or shrinks one

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    Quote Originally Posted by wantonman View Post
    not true man resizing a partion grows or shrinks one
    DUH. Hence RESIZING. If you resize and make the partition smaller, you can CREATE a new partition with the other empty free space.

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    Once you have partitioned the hard drive, as time goes on, the free space will be less and less, and then you may have to repartition this hard drive. However, there are some limitations with Windows build-in disk management. You may unable to not move the unallocated space to extend the non contiguous partition or could not create more partition. Once you have created 4 primary partitions on MBR disk, you could not create more partitions. The solution is to convert one of the partitions to logical. But Windows will not allow you convert it without data loss. In Windows 7/8, it allows you to create more partitions unless you convert this disk to dynamic disk. However convert to dynamic disk is not a good solution.



    To solve these problem you could learn more from How to Partition a Hard Drive, it present several situations and the solutions.

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    Quote Originally Posted by moom View Post
    Once you have partitioned the hard drive, as time goes on, the free space will be less and less, and then you may have to repartition this hard drive. However, there are some limitations with Windows build-in disk management. You may unable to not move the unallocated space to extend the non contiguous partition or could not create more partition. Once you have created 4 primary partitions on MBR disk, you could not create more partitions. The solution is to convert one of the partitions to logical. But Windows will not allow you convert it without data loss. In Windows 7/8, it allows you to create more partitions unless you convert this disk to dynamic disk. However convert to dynamic disk is not a good solution.



    To solve these problem you could learn more from How to Partition a Hard Drive, it present several situations and the solutions.
    You should never need more than 3 partitions on a single drive. While I know of the limitation of 4 primary partitions I see no reason to mention it since I said within the guide itself there is no reason for more than 3: OS, Programs, Storage. Storage should obviously be the largest with the OS disk being the smallest and Programs being in the middle somewhere.

    The partitions will fill up over time, just as one large partition will fill up. This can be prevented by using disk cleanup along with your normal virus/spyware/defragmentation schedule.

    Using multiple partitions allows for easier defragmentation of partitions, like the storage partition can be set to "consolidate free space" within Perfect Disk (the defragmentation tool that I personally use), while the other partitions can be set to options like performance, extreme performance, and if you have a SSD then you should not defragment the drive, but run SSD Optimization.

    I also said to avoid the built in windows disk manager because, well it's a hazard and fairly useless to use.

    I will take a quick read through the guide posted (I'm sure its probably more in depth than the one I wrote), and see if there is really anything more that can be added.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hazzah View Post
    You should never need more than 3 partitions on a single drive. While I know of the limitation of 4 primary partitions I see no reason to mention it since I said within the guide itself there is no reason for more than 3: OS, Programs, Storage. Storage should obviously be the largest with the OS disk being the smallest and Programs being in the middle somewhere.

    The partitions will fill up over time, just as one large partition will fill up. This can be prevented by using disk cleanup along with your normal virus/spyware/defragmentation schedule.

    Using multiple partitions allows for easier defragmentation of partitions, like the storage partition can be set to "consolidate free space" within Perfect Disk (the defragmentation tool that I personally use), while the other partitions can be set to options like performance, extreme performance, and if you have a SSD then you should not defragment the drive, but run SSD Optimization.

    I also said to avoid the built in windows disk manager because, well it's a hazard and fairly useless to use.

    I will take a quick read through the guide posted (I'm sure its probably more in depth than the one I wrote), and see if there is really anything more that can be added.
    yes, what you said are right. But what I said is not rare case. If keep a large partition to store all data file, media...may need to create many folders in one partition, and if this partition crashed all the things will gone. So to create more partition to separate different files from each other, that is not a bad choice.

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    Quote Originally Posted by moom View Post
    yes, what you said are right. But what I said is not rare case. If keep a large partition to store all data file, media...may need to create many folders in one partition, and if this partition crashed all the things will gone. So to create more partition to separate different files from each other, that is not a bad choice.
    That's true, but partitions do not crash as often as one might think. I have always partitioned out my computers, and so has the rest of my family and we have never had a partition crash. If a partition crashes you have bigger things to worry about, like erratic voltage from power supplies.

    If someone wants to create extra partitions, more power to them, personally I see no need for extra partitions.

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