How to repartition a hard drive

When buying and installing a computer, the issues of disk partitioning and setting partition size are generally set by the installer, which does not attract the attention of many buyers. Under normal circumstances, a disk is divided into 4 partitions during installation. Sometimes the system partition C drive is too small and there are too many data disks or there are too many C drives and other data disks are too small. There is even a hard disk whose entire capacity is allocated to the system disk. In short, the disk partition may be unreasonable. How to solve it? At this time, you need to resize the hard disk partition. Let's take a look at how to repartition the disk.

1. First enter the system's disk management, right-click "My Computer" and select "Manage".

#2. Click "Disk Management" on the left side of the pop-up window.

#3. You can see the computer partition status. Select a drive letter with plenty of remaining space, right-click it, and select "Compress Volume" in the pop-up right-click menu.

#4. In the pop-up edit box, enter the amount of space you want to compress (in MB, that is, megabytes), and then click the "Compress" button.

#5. After successful compression, there will be an additional "available space" below. Right-click the blank partition and select "New Simple Volume". Click "Next" directly in the pop-up window.

#6. Then set the volume size, enter the size you want, and click "Next" to select the drive letter.

#7. Next, select the disk format. Generally, use the default one and click "Next" directly.

#8. Finally, click "Finish".

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