How To Create A Partition in Windows 7.

Go to Start -> Right Click My Computer -> Manage (look at the image below)

You will see Computer Management window. Now, expand  Storage and under it click on Disk Management. You will see something like that:

and now select the Drive you want to partition. For example, in this case I have selected drive D: When you select a drive to partition, right-click on it and from the menu select Shrink Volume:

You will see the window showing you the Size of the Hard drive and the total amount available to Shrink, something like that:

You can enter in the amount you would like to shrink ( This will be the size of the new partition ) It can’t be more than the amount available to you and remember that Approx 1000 Mb = 1 GB. After that click on button Shrink. Depending on the size and amount to shrink it could take a while. Just be patient and once it’s done you will see an unallocated space. Select it and right click on it. Then select New Simple Volume. There are a few steps left. Follow the Wizard that appears and fill in the Size of the Partition. After that assign a drive letter, you can do that by picking up one of your choice. On the Format page, be sure that NTFS is selected and then Enter a name for your Drive – ie. “Music” and click next followed by finish.

You’re done! Now you have a new partition on your hard drive!

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