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Summary: Partitioning a hard disk drive in Windows is useful if you want to better organize your information, get a computer tutorial in this free video.

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by dranreb

thank you for your support video I'll try it

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How to Partition a Hard Drive

Hi! I’m Ross. Thanks for coming to expertvillage.com, let’s begin. How do you partition your new hard drive? Go down to start, click on run, and type in diskmgmt.msc. Click okay and be prepared to receive power for hard drive partitioning and formatting. You can see from here, I have a C drive that’s partitioned in NTFS. It says its status is healthy; its capacity, free size, free space left is here. Then there is a recovery partition that is on here, that’s in fact 32. If I right click, it gives me some options here. If you have a new hard drive, what you can do is go up to it and click on it; for instance, here I have this one that is on an external drive. This is one external drive. I have partitioned it in four parts. One, two, three, four. I’m using them for different purposes. What you can do is you can independently just format that one partition. That partition and data on there can be destroyed without interrupting any other data in the other partitions. There are some advantages to having partitions.

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