Modern hard drives no longer surprise with their capacity of several hundred gigabytes or a couple of terabytes. To accommodate the operating system and all programs on the hard drive, in most cases, you need no more than 30 gigabytes of space. The rest of the space can be used, for example, to store files. With proper configuration, failures in one of the parts of the hard drive will not affect other parts of it. But to use this convenient feature, you need to create a disk partition.
Instructions
Step 1
There are about a dozen of the most popular disk partitioning programs. Among them: Acronis Disk Director, Paragon Partition Manager, Norton PartitionMagic, DOS utility fdisk, Partition Commander and so on. In order to create a disk partition, we will use one of the most popular programs of this kind - Acronis Disk Director. We recommend using this program, which is part of any LiveCD disc. This will allow you to bypass some functional limitations, in particular, on working with partitions of the system hard drive.
Step 2
After starting the program, a window will appear, on the right side of which you can see all the hard disks installed on the computer, and on the left side - a list of available operations, grouped into different blocks. We are interested in the "Section Wizard" field. In the right part we select the hard disk with which we will work, in the left part - the command "Create partition".
Step 3
In the next two windows of the program, we specify from which existing partition and on which hard disk the new partition will be created. Click "Next".
Step 4
The program will check the disk and existing partitions on it, after which it will offer to indicate the size of the disk partition to be created. You can move the slider corresponding to the size of the desired section, or enter the size in numbers in the field provided for this.
Step 5
In the next window, indicate the type of the section to be created. There are three of them: primary, active and logical. If you are not going to install multiple operating systems on your computer, then you need to choose between active and logical. Active is the partition from which the operating system is booted. The logical partition is used to store files.
Step 6
We select the type of the file system of the new disk partition and its label. The most common file systems are NTFS and FAT32. NTFS is a younger file system, all the latest versions of Windows run on it. At the same time, some experts believe that FAT32 is more stable and better suited for storing files. You can leave the disk label empty: it does not affect anything.
Step 7
In the next window, we see a graphical image of the disk partitions, which we will receive after performing all the above operations. Click the "Finish" button.
Step 8
We returned to the main window of the program. Now we need to give the command to carry out all the actions, since everything that we did before was just the settings for the operation. To do this, at the top of the window, click on the button with the image of a black-and-white flag, when you hover over which the mouse pointer shows its name: "Proceed". When everything is done, the program will inform us about this with a service message.
