How and Why To Partition Hard Drive in Windows 10 Operating System?

 Partition Hard Drive in Windows 10 Operating System

Hard drive is the crucial component of your overall operating system. As it is the device that stores all the data files and software’s that are installed on to your system. Hard drive is the permanent storage of all your data and information including important files, folders, photos, pictures and music files. There are generally two types of hard drives: hard disk drives (HDD), which uses one or more rotating disc and depends on magnetic storage, and another one is solid-state drives (SSD), with no moving mechanical parts, but instead it uses flash memory like the one found in USB flash drives.

Why to Partition a Hard drive?

When you partition your hard drive you actually split one physical drive into number of virtual drives. A single drive can be split into volumes or it is like having different folders. So here are some of the reasons why to partition your hard drive, these are-

• In case you want to run more than one OS on to your device.

• In case one partition gets corrupted, you will need to format only that corrupted part not the whole hard drive.

• Partition helps in keeping files and folders organized and make it easy on processor to find files.

• Partition makes it easy for the hard disk diagnostics tool.

How to Partition a Hard Drive?

After the installation process the first thing to be done by the user is to partition it. Before using the hard drive to store data one should partition it first and then format it, in case of any difficulty users can avail help from Windows 10 Customer Technical Support. 

Here we have some of the simple steps to be followed to partition hard drive in Windows 10 Operating System.

• Go to computer management tool.

• Under the list of Computer management tool select disk management tool and click disk management.

• Make space for the new partition by right clicking on the partition you wish to re size and select shrink volume.

• Shrink the drive as per your requirement by entering the size in megabytes.

• Now create a new volume by right clicking on the unallocated partition and select new volume.

• The new simple volume wizards will popup. Click next to continue.

• Enter the size of your new partition as per your requirement.

• Now give the new volume a letter name and a path.

• Now make settings for the new volume as per your requirement and click the next button.

• Now new volume is created, look at the settings and click the finish button.

• Format the new volume.

• Finally check out the new volume and start storing your data.

These were some of the simple steps to partition hard drive in Windows 10 OS. In case of issues customers can avail help from Windows customer services. These are the online services working round the clock to offering solutions to Windows 10 related issues. Here solutions are offered by learned technicians through remote technology. To avail these services US customers can give these services a call at Windows 10 Support services toll free and can avail best services at a reasonable rate.

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