Home Environment (I) 4. Managing Disks 4.1 Creating a Partition

4.1 Creating a Partition

Marţi, 18 August 2009 22:30 Eugen Morar
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In this video i will create a partition.

 
  1. Select Start > Administrative Tools > Computer Management. Expand the Storage folder and click the Disk Management utility.
  2. Right-click an area of unallocated space and choose the New Partition option from the pop-up menu.
  3. The Welcome To The New Partition Wizard dialog box appears. Click the Next button to continue.
  4. The Select Partition Type dialog box appears. In this dialog box, select the type of partition you want to create: primary, extended, or logical drive (you will only see logical drive as an active choice if you have already created an extended partition). Click the Primary Partition radio button, then click the Next button.
  5. The Specify Partition Size dialog box appears. Here, you can specify the maximum partition size, up to the amount of free disk space that is recognized. In this exercise, specify 5012 MB and click Next.
  6. The Assign Drive Letter Or Path dialog box appears. Through this dialog box, you can specify a drive letter, mount the partition as an empty folder, or choose not to assign a drive letter or drive path. If you choose to mount the volume as an empty folder, you can have an unlimited number of volumes, negating the drive-letter limitation. In this exercise, accept the default drive letter, then click the Next button.
  7. The Format Partition dialog box appears. This dialog box allows you to choose whether or not you will format the partition. If you choose to format the volume, you can format it as FAT32 or NTFS. You can also select the allocation unit size, enter a volume label (for informative purposes), specify a quick format, or choose to enable file and folder compression. Specifying a quick format is risky, because it will not scan the disk for bad sectors (which is done in a normal format operation). In this exercise, accept the default value to format as NTFS (leave the other settings as their defaults) and click the Next button.
  8. The Completing The Create Partition Wizard dialog box appears. Verify your selections. If you need to change any of them, click the Back button to reach the appropriate dialog box. Otherwise, click the Finish button.