There are certain situations when users Windows operating systems I want to create we left, either on hard-diskul which is installed the system (for example o partition for backups), or a new one that they want to add to the system, to increase Storage space. uSERS Windows 8 who are in such a situation can follow instructions below to create a new partition in the system.

• Open the menu Power/Win+X (right-click in the bottom-left corner of the screen) and select Disk Management (you can also type diskmgmt.msc in Run, then give Enter)

• in case you want to create one new partition on an already existing hard disk, please right-click on the partition (the volume) you want to split in two and select Shrink Volume from the displayed menu

• after the partition will be checked to determine the available space on this one, on the right Enter the amount of space to shrink in MB enter how much space you want the new partition to have and click on the button Shrink (if you want a partition of 1 GB, say, you will have to enter its size in MB, that is 1024; for a partition of 15 GB, enter 15360, that is 15*1024, and so on)

• after the process will be complete, in Disk Management you will notice a new unallocated space (extracted in the previous step from one of the already existing partitions);

• Click-right on it and select New Simple Volume from the menu (if you use a new hard disk to create the partition, skip directly to this step, and divide the new unallocated space into as many partitions as you want)

• Then in New Simple Volume Wizard, click on Next, then again on Next (without changing the size of the new volume, unless you want to create more than one partition from the allocated space, in which case you will have to specify, in MB, the space for each of the partitions; you will also have to run the New Simple Volume Wizard for each partition separately)

• in the next wizard window, select the option Assign the following drive letter, then select one of the letters available for the new partition (if you want to install a new operating system on the created partition, you can also select the option Do not assign a drive letter or drive path, considering that anything Set we select for the new partition will be rewritten during system installation)

• in the window Format Partition, select Format this volume with the following settings, then select NTFS from the drop-down menu next to File system, next Allocation unit size LEAVE Default, and in the right Volume label ENTER NAMEs desired for the new partition (eg Backup) then click on Next and on Finish

You will notice that in Disk Management it appeared the new partition created, displayed with NAMEs and litera chosen by your

The partition will also be available in Windows Explorer.

Succes!

Note: tutorial also valid for Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7.

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