Why Partition Hard Drive Windows 10

 
Nowadays, Windows 10 becomes the newest operating system. By taking into account the features of this new OS, many computer users choose to use Windows 10 on the computer. As to a new computer, there is only one partition on the disk in most cases, thus, it is an unavoidable operation to partition Windows 10 hard drive or manage disk. Besides, when using Windows 10 for a period of time, the partitions may can’t meet your requirement and then to repartition Windows 10 becomes a common thing.
 
How can you do this work? For ordinary inexperienced users, it is a challenge to partition Windows hard disk. But, don’t feel helpless. Here, two partition tools will be told to you.
 

How to Partition Hard Drive Windows 10

Windows Disk Management

 
Disk Management, offered by Microsoft, is always the first option for disk and partition management.
 
1. Go to Windows 10 Disk Management interface.
2. (Note: Only one system partition on the hard drive) Right-click C partition to choose “Shrink Volume” to free up some unallocated space.
3. Right-click the unallocated space and use “New Simple Volume” to create partition Windows 10.
 
Tip: How much should you partition for Windows 10? This is depending on partition style. Get an answer from the post – MBR VS GPT: Which One Should Be Chosen for Your SSD.
 
If you want to repartition the hard drive, can this free tool help you? Take partition C drive as an example. Suppose that there is an unallocated space immediately following C partition: when right-clicking C partition to use “Extend Volume”, this operation can be done successfully. Otherwise, Disk Management won’t work, as shown below:
 

 
In this case, you need the help of a piece of third-party partition manager.
 

MiniTool Partition Wizard

 
This partition manager is offered by MiniTool Solution Ltd. It is rich-featured to help you to deal with many disk issues, for example, extend volume greyed out. By means of it, to repartition a hard drive becomes very easy. Let’s see how it works in Windows 10.
 
Step 1: Run MiniTool Partition Wizard Free Edition to its main interface. Here, after selecting the partition C, you can see there are many features in the left panel. Just click “Extend Partition”.
 
Step 2: Then, take some free space from an unallocated space or a partition on the same disk to increase the selected partition size.
 
Step 3: Execute this change by clicking “Apply” button.
 

 
In conclusion, MiniTool Partition Wizard makes repartitioning hard disk easier. In addition to partition hard drive Windows 10, this free partition magic can help you to migrate OS to SSD/HD, clone disk, rebuild MBR and more. Thus, get it right now to manage your hard disk.