The document discusses partitioning and formatting a hard disk drive (HDD). It defines partitioning as logically dividing an HDD to create separate storage spaces. It provides steps to partition an HDD using Disk Management, including shrinking the volume size. Formatting prepares the storage medium for use by erasing bookkeeping data and creating address tables. The document outlines formatting options like file system and gives examples of formatting commands in Windows and MS-DOS.

1. Partition HDD
Format HDD
By- Ronak Bokaria

3. What is Partition
In?
personal computers, a partition is a
logical division of a hard disk created so
that you can have different operating
systems on the same hard disk or to
create the appearance of having
separate hard drives for file
management, multiple users, or other
purposes.

4. How to partitions your HDD ?
• Open the Disk Management tool by
selecting Control Panel> Administrative Tools
>Computer Management
• Click Disk Management>and you should see a list
of your existing drives and partitions (if
applicable). To create a new partition, choose a
disk that has free storage space, right-click it, and
select Shrink Volume. Bear in mind that you can
safely shrink only basic disks and set it to format
with the NTFS file system.

5. • Type in the amount of space you want to shrink the
disk by. The number you choose depends on what you
want to use the other partition for.

7. What is formatting HDD ?
Format actually means to prepare a storage
medium, usually a hard drive, for reading and
writing. When you format hard drive, the operating
system erases all bookkeeping information on the
disk, tests the disk to make sure all sectors are
reliable, marks bad sectors, and creates internal
address tables that it later uses to locate
information.

8. How to format HDD ?
Step to Format HDD ?
 Go to “My Computer”
 Right click on any partition
 And an popup appears in that popup
you find an option “Format”
 Click on it and a window will open

9. It will show you several option Like: - size of hard
disk, File system, Volume label (NAME)
 Usually we have to check only two option
• File system {FAT32, NTFS)
• Format options {Quick format , full format}
Now Click and Format DONE.

10. We can format partitions with MS-DOS also


open CMD
And Type FORMAT (space) Drive name

11. a virus scan is a program which will go
through the memory and every file on your
computer and scan the contents to identify
malicious code. This often can detect virus’s
which have manifested themselves into
existing files on your computer or viruses’
which have been downloaded and are
housed within their own files. Viruses tend to
attach themselves to or hide within other
programs and program executables and this
is what a Virus Scan looks for.

12. How to scan Folder/File/ Disk
Steps to scan your computer or folders
 Right Click on any file or folder you will see an
option “scan” or “scan -------”
 Click on that and a window will appears that shows
us that the selected folder is being scanned.

13. Defragmentation is like cleaning house for
your PC, it picks up all of the pieces of data
that are spread across your hard drive and
puts them back together again. Why is
defragmentation important? Because every
computer suffers from the constant growth
of fragmentation and if you don’t clean
house, your PC suffers.

14. What is Disk fragmentation ?
Disk fragmentation occurs when a file is broken up into pieces to fit on
the disk. Because files are constantly being written, deleted and
resized, fragmentation is a natural occurrence. When a file is spread out
over several locations, it takes longer to read and write. But the effects of
fragmentation are far more widespread: Slow PC performance, long
boot-times, random crashes and freeze-ups – even a complete inability
to boot up at all. Many users blame these problems on the operating
system or simply think their computer is “old”, when hard disk
fragmentation is most often the real culprit.

15. Method 1: Use the Properties of Your Local Disk
1.Open My Computer.
2.Right-click the local disk volume that you want to
defragment, and then click Properties.
3.On the Tools tab, click Defragment Now.
4.Click Defragment.
Method 2: Use Computer Management MMC
1.Start Computer Management MMC (Compmgmt.msc).
2.Click Disk Defragmenter.
3.Click the volume that you want to defragment, and then
click Defragment.
Method 3: Use Disk Defragmenter MMC.
1.Start Disk Defragmenter MMC (Dfrg.msc).
2.Click the volume that you want to defragment, and then
click Defragment.

17. •It can defragment only local volumes.
•It can defragment only one volume at a time.
•It cannot defragment one volume while it is scanning another.
•It cannot be scheduled. If you need to schedule disk defragmentation, use
the Defrag.exe command line tool. For additional information about using
the command line Defrag.exe tool,

20. Thank You :)
:)
By- Ronak Bokaria