Partition A Hard Disk Without Formatting

               Partition A Hard disk without Formatting

Steps to Partition A Hard Disk:-

1. Click on Start and type “diskmgmt.msc” (without quotes) and press enter.
2. Now a disk management window will appear.
3. Here you can see all your drives which is being currently available.
4. Choose one of the drive which you want to shrink or extend.
5. For shrinking a drive and creating a new one there must be some free space in that drive.
6. Now right click on the drive letter which you want to shrink Or take out free space.
7. Now select shrink volume, & a little process will go on.
8. Here you will see the current size of drive, free space and size which you want to shrink.
9. Now enter the amount of space which you want to free, note that size should not exceed the free space.
10. Now click shrink button.
11. In disk management window you will see an allocated space at right bottom corner.
12. Right click on it and select New Simple Volume.
13. Now click Next and Enter the size of drive you want to create and click next, next and last Finish.
14. Now a New Volume or Drive will be created with desired size.

In same way you can extend size of any drive when your drive get overloaded by file,In that case you have to make some space allocated 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 any drive without formatting them.