HOW TO MAKE DRIVE PARTITION IN WINDOWS ?

Hello friends whenever you buy a new laptop/desktop or get your laptop /desktop formatted you find that all the hard drive's memory has been allocated to the C Drive and then you find the need to make various partitions so that you can store and categories your content (data) respectively.

So in this blog I will explain all the steps needed to make partitions or you can watch my video on how to create partition :

1. First of all right click on the This PC/My Computer and select Manage from the drop down menu.
   
2. Now click on the Disk Management under the Storage menu on the left side.
   
3. After that you can see the primary allocations of the memory . Right click on the C Drive and select Shrink Volume from the drop down menu.
   
4. Now a pop menu will appear saying "Querying for shrink space available" . It scans the drive total size of the drive,size occupied and size available to make partition.It will take quite a long time so wait for it patiently.
   
5. After that a window will appear giving details of the above mentioned things.Here in the amount to shrink column you have enter the size of the partition(in MB) you have to make . Suppose you have to create a partition of 50 GB then you have to enter (50*1024 MB =) 51200 MB.
   
6. Now you can see that a partition of the entered size has been created but still now you can't use that as that space is unallocated . So in order to use that you have to go through some more steps.
   
7. Right click on that unallocated partition and select New Simple Volume from drop down menu.
   
8. A New Simple Volume Setup Wizard will appear . Click on next and keep going on.
   
9. Here you can assign your partition a specific drive name  but that's optional.
   
10. Now click on Finish to complete the setup. Your partition is now ready to be used.