How to Add a Partition in Windows 7 After Installation?

When you have extra space in your default hard drive C: and want to save applications, programs, photos, movies, etc in separate hard drive, so you can definitely create and add a new hard drive partition in Windows 7 without formatting your previous data. The thing which is most important when creating a new partition is that you have enough free space to do so. There are some key benefits of creating extra partition in Windows 7, lets have a look over them first.

Benefits of Creating an Extra Partition:

There are many benefits of creating new and separate partition, some of them are as follows:

1. You have a separate volume and disk, where you can save a copy of your original data.
2. You can hide partitions in windows 7 due to security and safety issues. So, make partition and hide them as per your need.
3. If your computer might receive virus attack, usually at the beginning the attack remains restricted to one drive. So, you can safely transfer your data and important information without having harm on them.
4. Sometimes, backups of your important information and work are not available conveniently so storing and keeping a backup copy of your data in a separate partition on Windows 7 can save your time.

How to Add a Partition in Windows 7:

Windows Vista and 7, both allow you to increase number of partitions without formatting your entire data. Disk Management Tool in Windows 7 enables you to manage hard drives and volumes in computer system. There is how you can repartition after installation in Windows 7 :

STEP 1:
Click over "Start" button and type "Create and format hard disk partition" in the field. Then hit "Enter" to proceed further.

STEP 2:

As I have told you before that the most important thing when doing this action is that you have enough free space in order to create a new one.
Now, here right click over "volume C:" and select shrink volume then.
It will take few seconds as system checks the availability of lending space for new partition.

STEP 3:

After querying process it allows you to enter the amount in megabytes you want to borrow to create a new partition.

Now click over the button "Shrink" to proceed further.

Tips:
* One gigabyte is equal to 1024 megabyte.
* You should enter 1500-2000 lesser megabyte amount than the available space just to be on safe side.

STEP 4:
After the process completed a new unallocated volume can be seen there. Now, allocate the shrink space to it by turning it to simple volume.

Right click over it and then click for "New Simple Volume".

STEP 5:
Now you will receive a welcome notification by New Volume Wizard.
Click "Next" here to proceed further.

STEP 6:

In this step, you will be asked to enter the size of new volume you want to create.
After, entering the size or remaining it with the default size click over "Next" to take further step towards creating a new partition.

STEP 7:
Assign a letter for the new drive and then click over "Next".

STEP 8:
Now you will be asked whether you want to format the new volume. It is good to start your work on new partition after a format. 

Click once again "Next".

STEP 9:

You will be having a final look at your settings before your launch format for the new volume. Click "Finish" to end up with the process.

This is not actually included in steps but as we're moving step by step that is why I included here to mention this also that when you click over "Finish" you may get a warning notification about Dynamic Disk(s). If you're not using dual booting you can simply ignore this by going for "Yes". But if you have installed more than one operating system, you might loose that benefit here.

STEP 10:
Now enjoy the newly created partition in Windows 7 and store your personal data in extra partition in Windows 7.

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