Select shrink volume from the contextual menu. Step 4 – Right-click on the drive letter you want to shrink or get some space from. For shrinking space and create a new drive, make sure that drive has some free space available on it. Select the drive whose space who wish to extend or decrease. Step 3 – On Disk Management window you will see all system drives. Step 2 – Type disk mgmt.msg and hit enter key to open a Disk Management window. So, let’s see how to create a hard disk partition without formatting. This way you will have two drives on your system one for main system and important program files and the other for media and personal files and folders. For example, it your device comes with a 256GB hard disk but you want to create another disk for save media files and personal folders and keep them separate from systems files, then you need to create a new drive with let’s say 100 GB space.

When you purchase a new Windows PC, it mostly contains one large drive with all available disk space. You will rarely find two PC Windows users have similar hard disk partition as it is a matter of personal choice. Windows PC users often use different partition sizes for hard drives available on their computers to save files and data according to personal preferences. In this tutorial, we are going to explain a simple method using which you will be able to create hard disk partition to increase/decrease the available space on available drives on your Windows PC without Formatting the disk. When you install a new copy of Windows OS it asks you to partition hard drives on PC to allot desired disk space to each drive, but it also requires you to format existing data from disks for re-partition. This solution is going to be of great help to Windows 10, 7, 8, 8.1 PC users who want to partition a hard disk without formatting data saved on it.

Read the instruction below to know how to do it.

But now there is a solution that allows you to partition hard disk and you don’t need to format it. Biggest inconvenience when it comes to creating hard drive partition is that it mostly requires formatting data, which you need to restore once the process is complete. Windows users may want to read this guide to learn how to partition Windows PC hard drive without formatting data.

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