Partition Hard Disk Drive

It's advisable to put all your data on a different drive than on your OS drive. In future if you need to recreate the OS, you will have your data safe on a separate logical drive.

To partition your hard drive, right click on the “Computer” on and click manage.

This should open computer management window, which looks like:

Scroll to Disk management. On the right, locate your disk (generally called C:). Right Click and select shrink volume.

In the Enter the amount of space to shrink in MB:, enter the size of the data drive that you want to create. I would suggest you retain at least 60 – 250 GB on your C drive, based on the total disk size. Changing this later would be troublesome.

After shrinking you'll find unallocated volume. Right click on the volume and click on “New Simple Volume”. 

This should open the wizard. Follow the steps given and you should have your data drive ready.

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