Partition Hard Drive without Formatting

                     The partitioning of hard drive in earlier editions of windows is not so easy. To partition hard drive in previous edition of windows, we have to format the entire hard disk and re install windows before partitioning it. Since the technology advances it become possible to partition hard drive, shrinking, and extending its space without formatting the entire hard disk and without the loss of data.

                If you want to partition or shrink or extend the volume of your hard disk then follow the step provided below.

1. First of all click on the start button then find your computer name which is located in right pane of start menu and select Manage after right click on your computer name.


2. Now Computer Management windows open, where we should select Storage in left task pane and then click on Disk management. 


3. Now, Computer Management windows open where we have to select Storage which is located in left task pane and then click on Disk management.



Computer Management







4. Depending upon your need what you want to do, if you have to create a new drive then check the unallocated space of your computer and if there is sufficient space unavailable then shrink the extra space of any drive.


5. When we have to only extent the size of a drive then just right click on the particular drive and select extend volume. This option is only highlighted when sufficient space is available for this operation. In the case when required space is not available then perform previous step.


6. When you succeed in previous steps then you will see a green box is formed indicting free space below the name of drive. Now right click on it and select new simple volume.



New Simple Volume Wizard



7. New Simple Volume Wizard now popup. Just click next it will automatically include all free space. If we have to create more than one drive than just calculate and adjust the space of the drive and click next.


8. Assign the drive letter and click next.


9. Now format windows opens, we have to format the drive using NTFS file system, leave the volume allocation unit size to default and give any new name to the drive in the field of volume label leave the other options untouched and hit next.

Now just click finish and you reached your destination.
All done. This method only works for windows 7 and windows 8 OS. This method cannot be applied on a system which has preinstalled operating system from the factory. For any help contact me, I will surely help you.