Hdd creation. How to create a partition on your hard drive after installing Windows

Simple volumes are dynamic volumes that span the available free space the only dynamic hard drive. It is part of a physical disk that functions as a separate physical block. Simple volumes can be expanded on the same disk.

Simple volumes are not fault tolerant. When using simple volumes, any physical disk failure results in data loss. However, the loss is limited to the failed drive. In some scenarios, this provides a level of data isolation that can be interpreted as increasing reliability.

I/O performance on a simple volume is identical to disk I/O performance. In some scenarios, simple volume can provide better job than the data layout. For example, when processing multiple, long, sequential streams, performance is much better if each stream is served by a single disk. Additionally, workloads made up of small, random queries when moving across interleaved data locations do not always result in performance benefits.

When creating or modifying simple volumes, use the following information for guidance:

• You must be a member of the "Backup Operator" or "Administrator" group.
• To initialize disks, create volumes, and format the file system, you can use diskpart.exe or Disk Management.
• Before you can save data to volumes, format them for the desired file system. Before you format a volume, give it a drive name or mount point.
• Before deleting volumes, make sure that the information on them has been transferred to another storage medium and verified, or that the data is no longer needed.
• In Windows 7, you can create more than 26 volumes. However, only 26 drive names can be assigned to access these volumes. To access volumes created after the 26th drive name, use volume mount points.

You can create a simple volume using Disk Management and the tool command line diskpart.

Create a simple volume using Disk Management.

1. Launch Disk Management.
2. Run the “New Simple Volume” wizard on Disk 2.
3. Define the volume size as 100 MB and label the volume as "Simple".

Create a simple volume using Diskpart.exe.

1. Launch Command Prompt.
2. Run diskpart.exe to create simple volume use the following commands:

• list disk
• select disk 3
• create partition primary size=100
• list partition
• select partition 2
• format fs=ntfs label=simple2 quick
• assign.

In addition to how to install a second system, hard drive divide also directly to unload the system. Why unload it? The thing is that Windows eventually “scatters” parts of files, both temporary and permanent, across the entire logical disk. This logical division of the file always occurs. But if the system was not cleared of temporary files for a long time and did not tolerate cleaning the registry, and indeed if it for a long time, then many new files " can't find a place", since the old logical data continues to remain on the disk, although it is no longer used. Therefore it would be appropriate splitting one large disk a few small ones so that increase system performance and don’t clog up your memory with gigabytes unnecessary information. Another advantage of this method is that the files will be arranged “on shelves” (one disk, for example, for photos, and the other for installing games and other large programs).

How the disk is partitioned.

For disk partitioning additional is needed software. It can certainly be downloaded from the Internet. And there are as many such programs as there is information about methods of division. The network is literally teeming with discussions and questions on this topic. But most of the methods provided can simply be called inadequate. Firstly, the disk will have to format, which will lead to loss of information recorded on it(there is, of course, the option to copy it; but again, you will need portable hard disk, which not everyone owns). Actually, this article will tell you how create a partition without formatting.

How to create a partition on your hard drive without formatting

Click on the " START"(the button is located in the lower left corner of the desktop). An interactive menu will pop up.
- Next select “ Control Panel» by clicking the left mouse button. A window with computer management icons will appear on the desktop.
- Double-click the left mouse button to open “ Administration" The window will refresh.
- Of the seven shortcuts that appeared double click you need to open one - " Computer management».
- On the left side of the pop-up window you need to find the tab “ Disk Management» and double-click on it.

The existing ones will be highlighted on the right side. at the moment disks and their characteristics. Carefully select the drive on which you want to create the partition.

One right-click on the selected disk will bring up the disk's context menu.
- IN context menu left-click on " Shrink Volume».
Scanning will begin free space on disk.

- Next, you need to enter the amount of free disk space (it will be the maximum for the future partition).

- Click the button Compress" The process will take up to several minutes depending on the size of the disk.
- A new section has appeared. But he is not yet ready for full-time work.
- Right-click on the newly created partition. From the context menu, select " Formatting" The process of formatting the empty space into a usable disk partition will begin, which will be assigned its own letter.
- The computer must be restarted so that everything changes made came into force.

Please note that when choosing a size you need to be extremely careful to avoid possible erasure of files. The main advantage of the described method is that no need to format the entire disk.

To create a partition, you will need unallocated space on your hard drive. If the hard drive is new, then it is not initially marked. If there is no unallocated area on the disk, then it can be created using .

Warnings

1. To perform operations with sections of hard disk must be used account with administrator rights.

2. Make sure that in the service settings Disk defragmentation The startup type is set to "Manual". If this service is disabled, then when you try to create a partition you will receive an error:

The specified service cannot start because it is disabled or all devices associated with it are disabled.

Method 1: Create a partition using Windows 7 Disk Management

1. Open Control Panel (View: Icons) > Administrative Tools > Computer Management.

2. From the left menu, select Disk Management.

3. In the middle part of the window, right-click the unallocated area (shown as an "unallocated" partition, marked in black) in which you want to create a partition, and select the command from the menu that appears.

5. Specify volume the disk being created in megabytes or gigabytes. Remember that 1 gigabyte contains 1024 megabytes.

7. Select a drive letter from the drop-down list of available letters and click Next.

8. Select the file system and formatting method for the new partition. If desired, enter a volume label. So that the partition appears in the Computer folder simply as Local disk, delete the contents of the field Volume Label.

I recommend that for new partitions you always do it with a file NTFS system and the minimum possible cluster size (512 bytes). Full formatting will carefully create a cluster table, the NTFS file system will allow you to store files larger than four gigabytes, and the minimum cluster size will ensure the most efficient use disk space with inevitable file fragmentation.

Warning

If Windows 7 prompts you to convert a simple volume to dynamic, click No. No need Convert a simple volume to a dynamic volume. If you agree, then the reverse transformation will be possible only during complete reinstallation Windows 7.

After completing these steps new section will be created in the unallocated area. You can close Disk Management.

Method 2: Create a partition using DiskPart (command line)

2. Type diskpart and press ENTER.

3. Type list disk and press ENTER.

After this command, a list of all physical hard drives and you will be able to see their IDs as serial numbers, which will be useful for next stage. You will also see which disk contains unallocated space - its volume is non-zero and is displayed in the graph Free.

4. Enter select disk X (instead of X enter identification number(ID) of the disk that has unallocated area to create a partition) and press ENTER.

5. Type the command create partition primary and press ENTER.

This command will create a blank RAW partition on the drive you selected in step 4.

6. Type list volume and press ENTER.

The command will display a list of all sections with their IDs. Like disk IDs, partition IDs are represented as numbers, starting from zero. Note the ID of the RAW partition, whose size is the same as the unallocated area volume you saw in step 4.

7. At this stage, you need to decide which file system will be used on the created partition and format it.

• To fully format a partition with the NTFS file system, enter the command: format fs=ntfs and press ENTER.
• To perform a quick format with NTFS, run format command fs=ntfs quick
• To fully format a partition with FAT32, run the command format fs=fat32
• To perform a quick format with FAT32, run the command format fs=fat32 quick

8. Once you have finished formatting the new partition, type exit and press ENTER.

The new partition should now appear in the Computer folder, with a drive letter already assigned.

Hello! I’ll probably start from the very beginning, and if you’re not very interested, and you know why this article was written, then you can safely move on to the next heading, lower on the page. I decided to install Windows 8, I want to test it new system, and I haven’t written instructions for installing Windows 8 on the blog yet. Install on virtual machine I don’t really want to, I want to demonstrate to visitors of my blog a real installation on a real computer. Everything would be fine, but I’m not ready to give up Windows 7 yet, especially since it’s not very good reviews they're floating around the internet about the figure eight, and if people talk about it, then most likely it's true :).

So I decided to install Windows 8 on one computer next to Windows 7. I think I’ll see what happens, and then if I like the eight, I can install it instead of the seven. There is only one little thing left, you need to create a partition on your hard drive for Windows installations 8 as a second system. This is not even a problem, I thought about taking a boot disk from Acronis Disk Director, take some space from local disk D and create a partition for Windows 8.

But then I realized that not everyone who reads my blog, in particular this article, has a ready-made boot disk with Acronis Disk Director. Therefore, I decided to write an article in which I will tell in detail and with pictures how to create a partition on your hard drive in Windows 7, we will make it all out of working system standard utility “Disk Management”.

I need to create another partition on my hard drive to install the second one operating system. You may have another reason, for example, you installed Windows and were too lazy to do only one system disk C, under which all was allocated hard memory disk. I've encountered this and it's very inconvenient. Therefore, in this way you can take some memory from a single partition and create one or two more local drives for storing photos, videos, etc.

How to create a partition on a hard drive under Windows?

As I wrote above, we will create another local disk using the utility “Disk Management”, first we need to launch it. We go to “Start”, "Control Panel", select "Administration", a window will open in which you can run “Computer Management”. In the window that opens, on the left you need to select “Disk Management”. Wait a moment while the system collects information about the partitions on your hard drive.

After loading the information, we will see our entire hard drive and the partitions that have already been created. This means we need to create another partition, but I only have 47 MB ​​of free memory (see the picture below, light green area). This means we need to take some space from one of the already created partitions, look at which we have the most free space, select it, right-click and select “Shrink Volume...”. As you can see, I selected local drive D for compression.

You need to wait a little while Windows 7 determines how much space can be squeezed out of this partition :).

A window will appear in which you can see the total size of the partition before compression, and how much space is available for compression. In my case, the maximum I could take from drive D was 20,140 MB, which is great for Windows 8. But you can specify how much space you want to take from a specific local drive. Click “Compress”.

We wait a little and look at the table again. As you can see, the area with free memory (light green area) has increased. You can create a partition from this free area. Right click on it and select “Create a simple volume...”.

The Create Simple Volume Wizard opens. Click “Next”.

Based on the free area, the system will show us the maximum and minimum size of the partition to be created. And it will ask you to enter the size for the new partition. For the new logical drive I used all free memory, so I just clicked “Next”.

Next we need to assign a letter to the disk being created. Therefore, we leave the mark opposite “Assign a drive letter” and choose a letter, or you can leave it as a prepositional system. Click the “Next” button.

The next stage is formatting the partition. I advise you to immediately format the local disk. Against “File system” I advise you to install NTFS, “Cluster size” We leave it as default. Where “Volume Label” we indicate any name, since I am creating a partition for installing Windows 8, I named it that way. Check mark opposite “Quick formatting” and click “Next”.

We check the information and click “Finish”.

Everything is ready! I got another one logical partition“H” with the name “Windows 8”. Now you can install an operating system on it, or simply save information.

If you go to “My computer”, then you can see the partition we created, even without any reboots.

Conclusion

Honestly, this was my first time creating a new partition on my hard drive. standard means in Windows 7. I usually always use a boot disk, or standard manager during the installation of the operating system.

But if you are running Windows 7, and you just need to create another partition and take some memory from the existing one, then all this can be done in a few minutes using the method described above, and there is no point in downloading and burning all sorts of boot disk images.

How to increase one logical partition at the expense of another using boot disk, I wrote in the article, read it, it might come in handy. Here is another article on the topic about breakdown new hard disk during the installation of the operating system, .

Perhaps someone will say that this method is bad, and it is best to create new partitions using special programs. This is not true, I did not have a single problem either when creating or using this section. I installed Windows 8 on it without any problems next to the already installed Windows 7, but this is a topic for the next article. Good luck friends!

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Questions that I get asked very often: I have only one logical drive, do I need a second one? How to create another logical drive? Is it possible to add a partition, a logical drive, without reinstalling the system and losing data?

We will address these questions in four materials:

1. The feasibility of dividing the hard drive into partitions;

Today's topic: The feasibility of dividing the hard drive into partitions

Let's start with a question: Is it necessary to partition the hard drive?

Definitely - YES. There are two reasons - one is important for your operating system, the second is for you personally.

The speed of the system largely depends on the speed of reading information from the disk. This is especially noticeable when it comes to reading system files. We already know that the information on the disk becomes fragmented during operation. When writing information to disk, the system does not look for free space on which to place the entire file, but begins writing to the first free cluster of the disk. If the file does not fit, the system appends its fragments to other free clusters. Thus, after some time, many files are on the disk, broken into many fragments scattered throughout the disk. To read such files, the disk heads make many “jerks,” which slows down the reading of information and increases the load on the disk controller, and, accordingly, on the processor. The computer starts to work slower. The risk of programs “freezing” increases, and you begin to look for the reasons for “braking” in viruses, hardware faults and in fate - the villain.

How to deal with this? Naturally, any disk needs regular defragmentation, i.e. running special programs that eliminate fragmentation by organizing disparate fragments of files into single block. However, it would be wise to take some measures to slow down fragmentation and allow the system to work stably and quickly, without outside interference.

One of these methods is to divide the disk into partitions, so that the system area is all system files And the most important programs were on a separate disk, and the user one, i.e. your information, as well as archival data, were stored separately.

Here, we can immediately talk about the second argument in favor of creating local disks.

There are times when we need to reinstall the operating system. The cause may be - a fatal system failure; a particularly harmful virus; transition to new version OS, in cases where you prefer a "clean" installation. There is also an opinion, and I, in particular, am a supporter of it, that at least once a year, it makes sense to reinstall the system, with full formatting system disk.

So, if the system and user data (document archives, movies, music, photos, game profiles) are stored in different partitions, you can at any time and in any emergency situation, format the system partition and reinstall the OS, without any damage to your data stored on your computer without having to bother creating backup copies.

And so, I hope that I was able to convince you not to store all your eggs in one basket, and create several partitions on the disk. Then, it's time to discuss exactly how many sections are required?

Usually, the choice is made between two and three. The first section is, naturally, the system one, where the OS itself and the most important programs are located (Office, graphic editors, service utilities, browsers, etc.). This partition is drive C by default. Let's call it “System”. This section also contains the system area. The system area contains files, any change/damage to which can lead to OS failure. Another argument in favor of the fact that nothing unnecessary should be stored in this section, and the less we look there, the better.

The bulk of disk space today, for most users, is occupied by multimedia files. These include photographs and drawings, music, clips, and videos. A lot of space is occupied by games that do not require installation, as well as those that are stored on disk in the form of CD/DVD images and run through emulators. To store all this, we will define a D: drive and call it “Data”.

On the third logical drive, if we decide to create it, we can place archives - backups our documents and other important information; the Download folder, where files downloaded from the network will be stored until they are distributed to the appropriate folders; the Install folder, for storing installers of our programs; files backup and recovery. It makes sense to regularly archive the contents of this section on external media to be able to restore significant information, even if completely destroyed hard drive. This will be drive E: “Store”.

Information from the Data and Store sections can also be placed on one logical drive (D:), especially if your HDD is small in size or if you immediately transfer archived information to external media.

Next important question: How much space to allocate for each section.

If you have a standard, by today's standards, hard drive with a capacity of 320 to 750 GB, it is reasonable to allocate 100 - 120 GB for the system partition, and allocate the rest of the space to the D: and E: drives, distributing the space approximately 2:1, or leave everything under the D: drive.

It must be remembered that on system partition, to ensure normal operation operating system, there should always be at least 20% free space. This space will be used by the system and running programs to create swap files, dumps RAM and storage of temporary files.

On other partitions, the availability of free space is not so critical, but it is still advisable to leave at least 10% of the empty space.

I hope that the information presented will help you decide what data storage structure you need.

And in we will learn how to create and change partitions on computers and laptops with Windows 7 pre-installed.