How To Partition A Hard Disk Without Formatting

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We are going to share an interesting trick on windows, You can easily partition your Hard Disk without formatting it. Read the full article below to know about it.

I’m sure this assignment will benefit you a lot. In this post, I will tell you the process to Partition A Hard Drive Without Formatting it. Usually, we make partition of our window drives during establishing our new operating system at that time we have to format all the drives to repartition them. But in this post,I will bestow a method by which you can easily repartition hard drive i.e. shrink or extend the space  of any hard drive partition in your computer.

Many of us want more number of partition to store different data in different drives as it becomes comfortable for us to determine and locate a file. So we can shrink fascinating data from a drive and can create a new drive with shrunk space. For ex If we have the drive of 500Gb and it is approximately 180gb full with data and remaining 3200 Gb is free, here we can shrink 100Gb and create a new drive. In this way, there will be three drives of 100Gb each.

So Here are the Steps:

Step 1.click start and type “diskmgmt.msg” (without quotes) and press enter. Now a disk management window will appear.

Step 2. Here you can see all your drives which are being currently available. Choose one of the drives which you want to shrink or extend. For shrinking a drive and creating a new one there must be some free space on that drive. Now right-click on the drive letter which you want to shrink or take out free space. Now select shrink volume, & a little process will go on.

Step 3. Here you will see the current size of the drive, free space and size which you want to shrink. Now enter the amount of space which you want to free, note that size should not exceed the free space. Now click shrink button.

Step 4. In disk management window you will see anunallocated spaceat the right bottom corner. Right-click on it and selectNew Simple Volume.

Step 5. Now clickNextandEnterthe size of drive you want to create and click next, next and lastFinish. Now a new volume or Drive will be created with the desired size.

Similarly, you can enlarge the size of any drive when your drive gets overloaded by file, In that case, you can easily make some space unallocated by shrinking it from one drive and then using that space to extend another drive. By this way, you can easily partition A Hard Drive without formatting them.