(Warning: Before partitioning your hard drive please make a backup of your important data. I'm not responsible if you done anything wrong. Please follow the steps carefully.)
Step 1:
Open "Computer Management" tool. To open it go to the desktop. Right click on your "Computer" icon and then click "Manage".
Step 2:
Now go to "Disk Management" under the "Storage". You will see all of your partitioned and removable drives.
Step 3:
Choose the drive which you want to divide. Here I'm going to Partition my D drive. Right click on Partition and select "Shrink Volume".
Postscript: There is system partition called "System Reserved" do not use it to partition.
Step 4:
Enter the desire size you want to shrink your drive to in megabytes. Then click on the "Shrink" button.
Step 5:
Now you will see there is new unallocated volume has been created. Now right click on that unallocated volume and click on "New simple volume".
Step 6:
Now "New Simple Volume Wizard" will appears. Click on the "Next" button.
Step 7:
Enter the size of new simple partition in "Megabytes" and then click on "Next" button.
Step 8:
Assign the letter to the new volume. After that click on "Next".
Step 9:
Choose whether you want to format this volume. Select file System "NTFS". Allocation unit size "Default" and Volume label, type the name you want to give your new disk drive. Tick on "Perform a quick format" and then click on "Next" button.
Step 10:
Now click on "Finish" to create a new volume.
Step: 11:
Now you will see the "Tap to choose what happens with removable drives" popup occurs. That's means we have successfully partition a hard disk. To ensure that new volume has been successfully created just go to "Computer". You will see your new volume with its name and letter.
If you find any difficulty in partitioning, let me know. Leave your feedback below in comment section. I will try to solve your problem.
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