Managing Hard Drive

How to Create a Primary Partition        

1. Click Start and then Control Panel.

2. In Control Panel click Performance and Maintenance and then Administrative Tools.

3. In Administrative Tools menu, double-click Computer Management.

5. In Computer Management expand the Storage container, and then click Disk Management.

6. In Disk Management, right-click the unallocated space in which you want to create
                 the primary partition and then select New Partition.

7. On Welcome page for the New Partition Wizard click Next.

8. On Select Partition page click Primary Partition and click Next.us03

9. On Specify Partition Size page, enter the amount of disk space in megabytes (MB) as
                 desire and then click Next.

10. On Assign Drive Letter/Path page, choose any available drive letter and then click Next.

11. On Format Partition page, click Format and select a file system (FAT32/NTFS), and then
                  assign a volume label. Click Next.

12. On Completion page, click Finish to create and format the partition. Be patient: Windows
                   must perform a number of functions, which can take several minutes.

How to Create Extended Partitions

1. In Disk Management, right-click unallocated space to create the extended partition and
    select New Partition.
2. On Welcome page for Create Partition Wizard, click Next.

3. On Select Partition Type page, click Extended Partition, and then click Next.

4. On Specify Partition Size box enter the size desire in MB and click Next.

5. Click Finish to create the extended partition.

How to Create Logical Drives

1. In Disk Management, right-click the free space in the extended partition in which

                the logical drive is to be created and click New Logical Drive.

2. On the Create Partition Wizard, click Next.

3. On Select Partition Type page, click Logical Drive and then click Next.

4. On Specify Partition Size box, enter the size in MB and click Next.

5. On Assign Drive Letter Or Path page, choose available drive letter and

                click Next.

6. On Format Partition page, click Format This Partition.

7. Select a file system and then assign a volume label and Click Next.

8. Click Finish to create and format the logical drive.