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Creating Partitions in Windows 10 allows you to use your hard drive space more effectively and …

After you have successfully installed

Download Config
Windows 10 on your computer, your
Tool
next step should be to create partitions
on the hard disk drive so that you can
utilize its space more efficiently.

The best way to create partitions in

Windows 10 is using the operating Free Configuration
system’s built-in ‘Disk Management’
Management tool for Routers
snap-in or with the help of ‘DISKPART’
command-line tool. Switches Firewalls etc

This tutorial demonstrates how you can

easily create partitions using the ‘Disk
Management’ snap-in while using
Windows 10.

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Here are the steps:
Log on to your Windows 10 PC with an Create your tutorial
administrator account. (The process of
creating partitions requires administrative Win badges and help your
privileges on the computer.)
Once logged on, click the File Explorer
icon from the taskbar.
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From the left pane (navigation pane) of
the opened File Explorer window, right-
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click This PC.
From the context menu, click Manage.

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On the opened Computer

Management snap-in, from the left
pane, click to select Disk Management
from under the Storage category.
From the right pane, right-click the
unallocated area of the hard disk drive in
which you want to make partitions.Note:
If you have assigned the entirety of the
hard drive’s space to the C: drive at the
time of installing Windows 10, there will
be no unallocated space left in the hard
disk drive. If this happens and you still
want to create a new partition, you must
shrink the C: drive by right-clicking it,
selecting the Shrink Volume option, and
following the on-screen instructions to
free up some space and to get the
unallocated area.
From the context menu, click Create
Simple Volume.

On the welcome page of the New

Simple Volume Wizard box, click Next.
On the Specify Volume Size page, in
the available Simple volume size in MB
field, specify the amount of space you
want to assign to this new partition.
(Make sure to specify the space in

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megabytes, i.e. 10240 MB for 10 GB. 1

GB = 1024 MB.)

Click Next to continue.

On the Assign Drive Letter or Path
page, leave everything as it is for
simplicity, and click Next. (If you are an
advanced user, you can choose a drive
letter of your choice from the available
Assign the following drive letter drop-
down list.)

On the Format Partition page, choose

the settings of your preference. (If you
are unsure what to choose, leave the
default settings intact.)

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Click Next to proceed.

On the Completing the New Simple
Volume Wizard page, click Finish to
create a new partition in the hard disk
drive.

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