How to Create a Hard Drive Partition on Windows 7

5/23/2013 No comments

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There is many Software out there that you can use to create a hard drive partition on your Windows 7 Computer or Laptop. But you can make a partition even if you don't use any software cause Windows 7 has it own Disk Management for you to easily create your partition. Now I'm going to teach you to do that, It's just this simple.

Step by Step

Step 1
Go first to your Elevated Command Prompt by typing cmd on your start menu.

Step 2
On your cmd type diskmgmt.msc and the Disk Management will Pop up.

Step 3
After Disk Management Pop ups, you want to do is right click your main Hard Drive or the Hard Drive that you want to partition and you will see an Shrink Volume Option, Just click that.

After you click Shrink Volume you see this notification saying Querying Shrink Space. Just wait, it only take a minute.

Step 4
After a minute of waiting, you will see this window. You want to do is put the size of partition you want to create. On how to compute it, you need to times 1024 on how many gigabyte you want. For example you want to create a partition of 20GB you need to is this 1024 x 20 = 20480. And then type it on Enter the amount of space to shrink in MB tab and click Shrink.