The procedure for splitting, or creating a new logical partition, of a hard volume may differ slightly in different versions of the Windows operating system, but the general principle remains the same. In this case, the Windows 7 operating system is considered.
Instructions
Step 1
Call the main system menu by clicking the "Start" button and go to the "Control Panel" item. Expand the link "System and Security" and select the "Administration" section. Expand Computer Management and open Disk Management on the left side of the Storage section.
Step 2
Call the context menu of the required hard disk by clicking the right mouse button and select the "Shrink volume" item. Wait for the process to complete and determine the amount of unallocated disk space. Call the context menu of this space by clicking the right mouse button and start the procedure for creating a new logical partition by clicking the "Create simple volume" button.
Step 3
Skip to the first window of the Create Simple Volume Wizard by clicking Next and make sure the unallocated space is displayed correctly in the Simple Volume Size line in the next dialog box. Proceed to the next step by clicking the Next button.
Step 4
Select an unallocated letter for the partition to be created in the drop-down list of the "Assign drive letter" line in the new dialog box and confirm your choice by clicking the "Next" button. Make sure that NTFS is selected in the "File system" line of the next window of the wizard, and click the "Next" button. Confirm the selected action by clicking the "Finish" button in the last dialog box and wait for the formatting process to complete.
Step 5
Please note that the procedure for partitioning a hard disk implies mandatory preliminary compression of the selected volume. The paging file and the shadow copy save partition cannot be compressed, so if you need to get more free disk space, you will need to transfer these files to another disk. You can then shrink the selected drive and return the paging file to its original storage location.
