Partitioning a hard drive involves creating, deleting, and formatting partitions to organize and manage the drive's storage space. It is commonly done when purchasing a new hard drive. Using disk management built into Windows, you can create partitions by selecting "New Simple Volume" on unallocated space. You can delete partitions by right clicking the unwanted partition and selecting "Delete Volume." Formatting a partition allows changing its file system or wiping data; right click the partition and select "Format" to begin this process. Partitioning provides benefits like independent storage areas that won't break other partitions if one fails, easier data organization, and the ability to encrypt partitions for security.

1. PARTITIONING
A HARD DRIVE
GUIDELINES ON HOWTO PARTITION A HARD
DRIVE BY CREATING, DELETING AND FORMATTING
A PARTITION

2. DISK
PARTITION

3. DISK PARTITION
• an independent part of hard drive, in
general, it has two partitions in one disk,
one is used for installing operating system,
another is used for storing data or files.
• Commonly, you must partition a hard disk
to store data when you purchased a new
hard drive.

4. DISK
MANAGEMENT

5. DISK MANAGEMENT
• is an extension of the Microsoft Management
Console that allows full management of the disk-
based hardware recognized by Windows .
• It is used to manage the drives installed in a
computer - like hard disk drives (internal and
external), optical disk drives, and flash drives.
• This can also be used
to partition drives, format drives, assign drive
letters, and much more.

6. HOW TO
PARTITION A
HARD DRIVE?

7. THE
MOST OF COMMON
OPERATIONTO
PARTITION A HARD
DRIVE INCLUDES:
* create
* delete
* format and
* adjust partition sizeOften, the users who have a knowledge
of computer, they would partition a
hard drive in computer built-in function
- disk management (size: 18.4MB)

8. COMMON
OPERATIONS IN
PARTITIONING A
HD

9. COMMON OPERATIONS IN PARTITIONING A HD
CREATE PARTITION
ON A HARD DRIVE
• Creating operation is so easy; you have
two choices, the first one, use built-in
disk management, the second,
by AOMEI Partition Assistant (PA).
• If your disk space was all allocated,
AOMEI Partition Assistant Pro Edition is
the only solution to solve your difficulties.
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10. STEPS:
FIRSTLY:
click right "My computer" on
window, select "Manage" to
open another window, find
"storage" on the left, select
"Disk management" on its
Subdirectory.
NOTE THAT THE OPERATIONS ON WINDOWS
OF MICROSOFT NEARLY THE SAME AS THE
OPERATION ON WINDOWS 7.
SECONDLY:
select "New Simple Volume" on
the unallocated space you wish
to create partition; here runs a
New Partition Wizard to guide
you achieve the work step by
step.
Refer to the following view:

11. COMMON OPERATIONS IN PARTITIONING A HD
DELETE PARTITION
ON A HARD DRIVE
• To some unwanted partition, delete it to
save your space for other use. Disk
management just supports you to delete
it without wiping data, if you need to
wipe data permanently and anti-data
recovery, don't hesitate and just try
AOMEI Partition Assistant.
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12. STEPS:
Right click the
unwanted partition
and select "Delete
Volume" to get the
new window:
NOTE:
The new window gives you
A choice, please select
"Delete volume" according
to your needs.
Refer to the following view:

13. COMMON OPERATIONS IN PARTITIONING A HD
FORMAT PARTITION
OPERATION
• When we need to change file system
(such as reach the conversion between
NTFS and FAT32) or wipe data fast,
format partition is the method. Take a
careful consideration before starting your
formatting because all data on the
partition could be cleared.
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14. STEPS:
Open your computer and
select a drive, right click
"Format". In the following
view, mainly take D: drive
for instance.
NOTE:
1. Partition Label: Type a
name if you like.
2. NTFS or FAT32: Choose
NTFS or FAT32.
3. Cluster size: Change
cluster size is not
recommended here.
Refer to the following view:

15. • Make partitions independent. Other partitions will not be
broken when one partition destroyed. At the same time,
make your data and file group easily.
• Encrypt to protect data safety. Put all your cryptographic
data to one partition, you just need to encrypt this
partition rather than all partitions, to do so could not
decrease the efficiency to visit other partitions.
• (Note: you can't encrypt system partition for the normal operation of your OS).
Why partition a
HARD DRIVE

16. • Store similar program or games program to one
partition, and label them a name to distinguish from
others. For an office worker, for storing our files
with classification, this is even more important to
create more partitions. They will make us work
more fluently and easily.
• When you wish to dual boot or multiple boot, such
as dual boot Windows XP and Windows 7, how
could achieve it? Well, it is essential to create
partitions.
Why partition a
HARD DRIVE