How To Partition Hard Drive Without Formatting

Hello everyone, Today I'm going to give tutorial on "How To Partition Hard Drive Without Formatting". As you all know our all data stored in hard disk as we have to create partition of our hard disk during the first installation of OS. Sometimes you feels disappointed with your partition of hard disk. You want to create a new volume or extend some volume. For this are you going to reinstall the windows and format all data and then repartition the hard disk ? Well the answer is no, you did not want to lose you all data. So, then how you will create partition hard drive without formatting it ? Well the microsoft windows has a feature of Disk Management which let you to Extend, Shrink, Delete, Change drive letter etc. So, Lets start :-

How To Partition Hard Drive Without Formatting :-

Step 1: First of all you need to open the Administrative Tools. For this open control panel then change your Icon view to Large Icons from the Top right corner. After this click on Administrative Tools and open it.

Step 2: After this click on Computer Management and open it new windows will opens on the screen.

Step 3: In the new opened window click on option of Storage and open it.

Step 4: Then just simply open Disk Management. Now wait until you all local volumes loads.

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You can simply open Disk Management just by typing diskmgmt.msc in Run.

Step 5: Now for Shrinking process you have to right click  on drive that and click on Shrink.

Step 6: Now Carefully enter the amount of space in MB which you want to shrink. Here I'm entering 10 Gb. After this click on Shrink button.

Step 7: After shrinking now there is time to create new volume from the shrinked space ( unallocated/free space ). For this the free avialable space will appears in bottom panel now click on it and then click on New Simple Volume.

Step 8: Now a window will opens where you have to assign any Alphabet which you want to appear on your drive and then click on continue. Now your new drive/volume is created without any lose of data. Enjoy !!