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Disk Management is a feature that helps you manage and monitor the status of hard drive partitions. You can access Disk Management and quickly and safely merge or partition drives right within Windows 10. Since Windows Vista, you've been able to use this feature, and the following steps for partitioning a drive in Windows 10 will guide you through.
How to Partition a Hard Drive in Windows 10 without Using Software
Guide: How to Partition Hard Drive in Windows 10 without Software
Step 1: Right-click on This PC/ My Computer and select Manage
Step 2: In the Computer Management window, choose Disk Management to access the hard drive management interface.
Step 3: You will see a list of existing partitions on the hard drive. To partition the hard drive for Windows 10, right-click on any empty partition and select Shrink Volume…
Step 4: On the Shrink Volume window, you'll see:
- Total Size before shrink in MB : The size of the partition before shrinking (in MB)
- Size of available shrink space in MB : Available space for shrinking
Input the desired size for the new partition in the field Enter the amount of space to shrink in MB in Megabytes (1GB = 1024MB), then click Shrink.
Step 5: Back in the Disk Management window, you'll see a hidden partition alongside the existing ones in the system. However, this partition is not formatted yet. To format it, right-click on the partition and select New Simple Volume…
Step 6: In the partition formatting wizard, when partitioning the Windows 10 hard drive, you need to set storage capacity for the new partition, press Next and input the desired partition size, then continue by clicking Next.
Step 7: If you want to change the drive letter assignment (A,B,C,D,E,G,H,I,...), you can do so under Assign the following drive letter. Then click Next to proceed.
Step 8: Choose the format for the partition as NTFS or FAT32 under File system. Typically, partitions containing data are formatted as NTFS (allowing files >4GB) and name the partition in Volume label.
Step 9: Click Finish to complete partitioning the Windows 10 hard drive and wait for the partitioning tool to finish formatting.
Once formatting is complete, you can navigate to File Explorer to check your new partition.
With the above instructions, Mytour has helped you partition Windows 10 drive quickly and safely without needing to install software. However, there are tools developed with superior features than Disk Management and are very safe like EaseUS Partition Master... to find a software to manage disk partitions on Windows 10, EaseUS Partition Master is definitely worth a try.
Wishing you all success!
