How to Create a System Partition
A hard drive partition is what an operating system recognizes as a separate drive and uses for data storage. A single physical hard drive can contain one or multiple partitions, and partitions are useful for dividing up data or creating multiple virtual hard drives on the system. Creating a partition with your operating system is a simple task, thanks to the Disk Management utility.
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Instructions
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Click on the "Start" button, click on "Control Panel," click on "Administrative Tools" and then double-click on "Computer Management."
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Click the "Disk Management" section in the left side of the window. Right-click on the hard drive that you wish to create a partition on and click "New Simple Volume."
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Click the "Next" button, choose what size you want the partition to be and then click the "Next" button again.
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Choose what drive letter you want the partition to have, click "Next" two more times and then click "Finish." The partition is created and formatted.
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