Lab Objective:
Learn how to partition a hard drive in Windows.
Lab Purpose:
Partitioning your hard drive is a great way to organize your files, folders, and applications into multiple virtual drives.
Lab Tool:
Windows 10
Lab Topology:
Use a single PC. Note that if you use a virtual machine, you may not always be able to see some of the same options.
Lab Walkthrough:
Task 1:
Use the search bar and search for ‘disk management’. You should see ‘Create and Format Hard Disk Partitions’ as an option that you can select. You can also right-click on the Windows icon and choose Disk Management.
Your display may well differ from mine depending upon how many hard drives you have configured for your home or virtual machine.
Task 2:
You will then need to create some unallocated space before you can create the partition. Choose the ‘Shrink Volume’ option.
You will then need to choose how much space you wish to use. The output below is from before I changed the value in the box.
I chose 500MB as the value below and then pressed ‘Shrink’.
Task 3:
Right-click in the unallocated space and select ‘New Simple Volume’.
Task 4:
Select the size and drive letter. You can use all the available space and follow the next steps.
Notes:
The steps are the same for Windows 8.1. Please try the same process on Windows 7 and Linux.
