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MiniTool Partition Wizard is a highly professional hard drive management software. This software supports drive partitioning, setting active partitions, loading MBR, converting drives from MBR to GPT, and more. This tool is likely familiar to many of you, especially computer technicians. For computer technicians, it is an indispensable tool in the arsenal of computer rescue tools due to its convenience and safety.
However, for those not specialized in technology, the guidance on partitioning hard drives with MiniTool Partition Wizard below can help you understand the processing steps and gradually become a professional computer technician. Let's explore the steps together in this Mytour guide.
GUIDE TO PARTITIONING DRIVES WITH MINITOOL PARTITION WIZARD
1. How to Download MiniTool Partition Wizard
- Download the MiniTool Partition Wizard tool to your computer.
- Follow the software instructions for installation. Once installed, open the interface, which will look like the image below:
2. Guide on Partitioning Drives with MiniTool Partition Wizard
To rearrange hard drive partitions (without data loss), select MiniTool Partition WizardFree option.
The following guide will instruct you on creating an additional partition.
On the software interface, you can observe the current state of the hard drive as follows: Drive C (Windows) with a capacity of 100GB and Drive D (DATA) with a capacity of 364.7GB. Now, let's try creating an additional G drive with a capacity of 50GB.
Step 1: Right-click on Drive D and select Move/Resize.
The Move/Resize function window appears as shown below. Here, you can use the mouse to shrink the right part of Drive D by 50GB or enter an exact number in the Unallocated Space After section to create empty space to the right of Drive D. Then, click OK to proceed.
After clicking OK, you will see a 50GB empty space created to the right of Drive D.
Step 2: Right-click on the newly created 50GB partition and select Create to make a new drive.
After selecting Create, a new interface appears. Fill in the information as shown below and choose OK.
The interface, after you click OK, appears as shown below. In this image, you will see an additional 50GB Drive G that has been newly created.
Step 3: At this point, click Apply to apply the changes.
A new window appears; carefully read and select Yes to proceed.
In the NOTE section, remember to disable power-saving features and close other applications before proceeding with partition resizing.
Immediately after pressing the Yes button, the program will initiate necessary tasks to execute the partition resizing.
A notification box confirms the successful completion of tasks; simply press the OK button to finish.
You can observe the appearance of the desired 50GB Drive G.
You can also verify by accessing Computer to review:
Thus, the above article just guided you on how to partition a hard drive with MiniTool Partition Wizard. With these 3 simple steps, Mytour believes you can perform the operations successfully. Wishing you success.
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