I bought a refurbished laptop which comes with 1 250GB Drive. It has Windows 10.
What's the next way to create 2 partitions without formatting/impacting the window?
Thanks for your assistance.
How to create Hard Drive Partitions on existing install?
Ash-Say on 21/04/2022 - 09:01
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I remember when the maximum partition size was @ 17mb. Selling good old Amstrad 386's with Dos 3.3 & Windows 3.0! LOL.
This, I won't partition it if it's just 256-512gb.
Because you want your files in a drive that's a non OS drive, so something happens to OS you can just simply reset OS drive
Disk Genius or if needs to be bootable PartTools
- Right-click This PC and select Manage.
- Open Disk Management.
- Select the disk from which you want to make a partition.
- Select Shrink Volume and proceed with default values
- Right-click the Unpartitioned space in the bottom pane and select New Simple Volume.
- Enter the size and assign the volume a letter.
Instead of partitioning small drives I just create a folder on the drive and give it a relevant name.
No problems with a partition that ends up being too small for what I want to save on it.
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Did you try to google before posting here? It's literally right there with more information
How to create Hard Drive Partitions on existing installation
It's always easier to let other OZ members do the hard yards for you !
Sometimes its a matter of knowing what the correct words are to do a Google search. Sometimes some words may have a dual meaning, so its a struggle to get the correct answer.
Windows has a built in DiskPart, otherwise I usually prefer Aomei Partition Assistant, EaseUS Partition Assistant.
Both of the last softwares are really useful IMO YMMV
Load any Linux distro like Ubuntu off USB or DVD. Then launch GParted to resize existing windows NTFS partition and to create another partition.
Don't want to say more here. An ozbargainer here critises my method being old school. Just wait for that person to comment here for the best solution.
You can actually download a GParted Live CD/USB. I did this myself when I wanted to repartition a drive whilst keeping the contents (was shifting between dissimilar sized disks, so used Macrium Reflect to clone the disk and then GParted to expand the partition to the full size of the disk).
I went with GParted as I remember being told not to use Windows's in-built tools for this as it frequently borks it up (having said this, that was a number of years ago, so they're tooling should be much improved now).
Pretty small drive - why partition it?