Create new Partition without Formatting a Hard Drive


How to create New Partition without format

If your hard drive have 2 partitions and you need 1 more partition then what will you do?
Obviously you will format and delete one partition and then split that one to two partitions.

But i here i am going to tell you another method by which you can create a new partition without formatting the previous one.


follow this simple procedure.
1. Right Click on My Computer
2. Select Manage. Now a window will appear.


3. In the left pane you will see Disk Management under Storage Media.Click on Disk Management.

4. Now in the right pane you will see the details of the storage and removable media (i.e. HDD, CD-ROM, Removable Disk etc) click on the particular drive and Select Shrink Volume.

5. Now a window will appear showing you the space in that particular drive.Type the disk size for new partition and Click on Shrink.
6. A new disk will be created but will not be accessible.Now Right Click on Unallocated drive and Select New Simple Volume.
7. Click Next . now give the amount of space you want to create , Select a Drive letter and then click on Next.
8. now Select Format Setting , then File System and then NTFS . Perform a Quick Format and click on Next. 

Thats it !! A new partition is created successfully.

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