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Hello guys, in this tutorial, I'll be teaching you how to divide your disk drive into more smaller portions! This is good for Windows 7 Ultimate users where you'll have the option to lock your drive or for users who want to make a secure disk portion or just to have a new portion to put stuff in neat order!
If you still don't understand what I'm trying to teach you today this is what it is, you have your C:\ drive, right, witch is your main System storage, but here we'll be creating a new portion and volume so you can make a new drive name (IE: L:\)
Now, we're going to get more into the tutorial! First, you're going to want to open up your start menu, and search for: diskmgmt.msc -Please be aware that this will allow you to modify your disk drives, so make sure you follow this tutorial step by step!
1. Once you've opened Disk Management, you're going to want to find your main drive you want to put into portions! For example, my main disk drive (HDD) is C:\
2. Now, you've located yourself to your drive that we're going to split into more than one smaller drives, we're going to create a new Volume, by doing this we're going to shrink, or allocate space for the new drive! So what you're going to want to do is right click on the section where I've boxed out in red in the above image, and choose Shrink Volume. Please note you might need to wait for the Shrink Volume window to open!
3. Now we're up to the part where we can now shrink the volume, for this shrink, I'm going to allocate 1GB of space, and because I want exactly 1GB, I'm going to google search:
What is 1 GB in MB
And by searching this, Google will give me a exact value (1024), if you want to shrink the volume with more space, example 20GB just change the 1 GB to 20 GB or the portion you want! And once Google has given you the exact amount from GBs into MBs, you can enter this value into the Shrink window, like so:
4. Now once that we've set our amount (in my case, 1GB/1024MBs) I'm going to want to click on the button that says 'Shrink'! It will then create the new volume, please allow some time for the computer to shrink the drive into your allocated space you've chosen.
Once it's been shrinked you'll then see the new allocated space in the Disk Management in the main drive (My case, it's C:\) - Now as you can see in the image below, it hasn't been allocated to a new drive, so we're going to give it a new drive name by following the steps below for creating a new portion!
1. We're going to give it a drive name and then once again allocate space for that drive name, and as you can see from the tutorial above, we're created a 1GB Portion space, witch is unallocated! This is great because we're now going to allocate it to our new drive, P:\ - And as you can see, I've already created a Disk Portion called: Private Disk Partition witch has 20GBs. I'm going to use my 1GB portion to store my passwords within it! So now, we're going to start to create the new partition, and by doing so, you're going to want to right click on the new unallocated volume we've created earlier and choose 'New Simple Volume'!
2. Now, we're up to the 'New Simple Volume Wizard', it's very simple, and all you need to do is follow me:
Click on Next
Click on next again, since we've already chosen how much space we want to allocate!
We're now going to choose the drive letter, for mine, I'm going to choose P:, because there I'm going to store my passwords! Then simply click next...
And we're on our final step! Change the 'Volume Label' to the name you want it to say in Computer/My Computer!
Now you've named your volume, you can just click on Next, then it'll take you to the confirmation page, and simply click Finish! You can change the Volume Label any time by right clicking on the drive and clicking on Rename!
Now give it some time, about 5-10 seconds depending on how fast your computer processes, and then it'll create the drive! Now you have successfully created your first disk partition! And you'll now be able to use it, secure it, and do whatever you want with it! It will also show up in your Computer! (
I thank you very much for reading and following my tutorial, if you have! I have made a very quick video for you guys to follow for ease of creation!
Sorry about the video quality, Camtasia is a horrid screen recorder!
If you still don't understand what I'm trying to teach you today this is what it is, you have your C:\ drive, right, witch is your main System storage, but here we'll be creating a new portion and volume so you can make a new drive name (IE: L:\)
Now, we're going to get more into the tutorial! First, you're going to want to open up your start menu, and search for: diskmgmt.msc -Please be aware that this will allow you to modify your disk drives, so make sure you follow this tutorial step by step!
1. Once you've opened Disk Management, you're going to want to find your main drive you want to put into portions! For example, my main disk drive (HDD) is C:\
2. Now, you've located yourself to your drive that we're going to split into more than one smaller drives, we're going to create a new Volume, by doing this we're going to shrink, or allocate space for the new drive! So what you're going to want to do is right click on the section where I've boxed out in red in the above image, and choose Shrink Volume. Please note you might need to wait for the Shrink Volume window to open!
3. Now we're up to the part where we can now shrink the volume, for this shrink, I'm going to allocate 1GB of space, and because I want exactly 1GB, I'm going to google search:
What is 1 GB in MB
And by searching this, Google will give me a exact value (1024), if you want to shrink the volume with more space, example 20GB just change the 1 GB to 20 GB or the portion you want! And once Google has given you the exact amount from GBs into MBs, you can enter this value into the Shrink window, like so:
4. Now once that we've set our amount (in my case, 1GB/1024MBs) I'm going to want to click on the button that says 'Shrink'! It will then create the new volume, please allow some time for the computer to shrink the drive into your allocated space you've chosen.
Once it's been shrinked you'll then see the new allocated space in the Disk Management in the main drive (My case, it's C:\) - Now as you can see in the image below, it hasn't been allocated to a new drive, so we're going to give it a new drive name by following the steps below for creating a new portion!
1. We're going to give it a drive name and then once again allocate space for that drive name, and as you can see from the tutorial above, we're created a 1GB Portion space, witch is unallocated! This is great because we're now going to allocate it to our new drive, P:\ - And as you can see, I've already created a Disk Portion called: Private Disk Partition witch has 20GBs. I'm going to use my 1GB portion to store my passwords within it! So now, we're going to start to create the new partition, and by doing so, you're going to want to right click on the new unallocated volume we've created earlier and choose 'New Simple Volume'!
2. Now, we're up to the 'New Simple Volume Wizard', it's very simple, and all you need to do is follow me:
Click on Next
Click on next again, since we've already chosen how much space we want to allocate!
We're now going to choose the drive letter, for mine, I'm going to choose P:, because there I'm going to store my passwords! Then simply click next...
And we're on our final step! Change the 'Volume Label' to the name you want it to say in Computer/My Computer!
Now you've named your volume, you can just click on Next, then it'll take you to the confirmation page, and simply click Finish! You can change the Volume Label any time by right clicking on the drive and clicking on Rename!
Now give it some time, about 5-10 seconds depending on how fast your computer processes, and then it'll create the drive! Now you have successfully created your first disk partition! And you'll now be able to use it, secure it, and do whatever you want with it! It will also show up in your Computer! (
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to see a image!)I thank you very much for reading and following my tutorial, if you have! I have made a very quick video for you guys to follow for ease of creation!
Sorry about the video quality, Camtasia is a horrid screen recorder!
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