Manual Disk Partitioning

Partitioning of a disk means dividing the available Hard Disk space into multiple categorized sizes. If there are five partitions means there is not five individual disks, a whole Hard Disk is portioned into multiple partitions or drives. An application called partition manager helps the user to partition the disk manually.

How to access Partition Manager or Disk Manager ?

1. Right click on My Computer, click on Manage. A new window will appear from that choose Disk Management. Otherwise goto run and type diskpart.

2. With using Disk Management tool user can add, delete partitions.

How to make Disk Partitions ?

1. Right click on the Free space( Unallocated space) and choose New Simple volume.

2. Choose the drive letter and assign the disk space in MB. 1024 MB=1 GB.

3. Click next and format the partition. now a new drive will be aviliable for you.

NOTE: Donot format or delete a drive with content.

Partition During Windows Installation

During the windows installation time normally creation of 3 Disk partitions are allowed. for creating more than of that partitions users can use manual disk partitioning.