Before partition
After partition
You can see that i have taken 60 GB from my c drive and made a new drive [highlight]rtt stuff[/highlight] of 60 GB from it. Let see how to do it:
- Go to start menu » computer » right click it » manage.
Be patient, it may take few minutes depending on the size of your disk. 4. Select the amount to be shrink this will be equal to the new drive that you want to create, Like I want to make my new drive of 60 Gb (61440 MB) so I will shrink it to 61440 MB. 5. Click next and select NTFS partition and click finish. You will have to wait for some time. Now you can see a new unallocated disk has been created.
How to add a partition to existing drive
Now we know how to cut off the extra space from your hard disk and make a new drive but what if we want to add this free space to another existing hard drive partition. So here I will delete the RTT stuff drive to get some extra space. Click yes to confirm the deletion.
Now once you have the unallocated space back, select the drive of which you want to increase the disk space » right click » extenD volume. Again I will be adding this to my c drive.
Click next and wait for a while for the process to complete.
That is it, check you my computer now you will find the space added to your desire drive.
Tips :
You can use free disk partition software like
GParted GParted
