How to Partition a Hard Drive in Windows 7 and Bring Efficiency?

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This article will guide you how to partition a hard drive in Windows 7. And the working steps are applied in Windows XP, Vista, 2000 and Server 2000, 2003, 2008 as well. Thus, the next 3 points could assist you to clear which edition is most suitable for you.

• To save your money, Aomei Partition Assistant Home Edition, this free partition manager could well partition a hard drive on Windows 8, 7, Vista, XP and Windows 2000 Professional, Download partition magic freeware to directly partition hard drive.
• For Windows 8, 7, Vista, XP and Windows 2000 Professional, Aomei Partition Assistant Pro Edition which is considered as partition magic Windows 7 could do big favor for you.
• Running Windows Server 2000, 2003 or 2008? Partition manager server tool is the one which supports Windows Server 2000/2003/2008 both 32 and 64 bit.

Quick links for scanning:

1. Partition hard drive resource
   • Definition of partition hard drive
   • Windows Disk Management & Aomei Partition Assistant
2. Partition hard drive in Windows 7 tutorials
   • Resize partition
   • Create partition
   • Delete partition and format partition
3. Summary of partition a hard drive Windows 7
   • Related tutorials

Definition of partition hard drive

Usually, to partition a hard drive includes resize partition, create partition, delete partition and format partition and for the simple purposes of making partitions independent or dual/triple booting.

Windows Disk Management & Aomei Partition Assistant

Compared with the Windows snap-in utility Disk Management, Aomei Partition Assistant has made great congress in disk/partition management:

Functionality:

1. Resize partitions to ideal size without any limitation
2. Move partition and ensure data security
3. Create partition as primary partition or logical partition
4. Quickly format partition
5. Wipe partition or disk to prevent data recovery

Interface:

1. Fresher interface with understandable and multiple access
2. Graphic interface with drag and click working style
3. Changes preview before commit
4. "Undo", "Redo" and "Discard" are used for correcting wrong operations

Partition hard drive in Windows 7 tutorials

Launch Aomei Partition Assistant Professional Edition, your local disks or partitions information will be shown out in the main fresh interface. Following screenshots show our test computer information for your better understanding.

Resize partition Windows 7

• Shrink F: partition

1. Select F: partition, drag the right side leftwards:



2. F: partition was shrunk, the unallocated space is also released:

• Extend C: system partition:

1. Follow the above steps, we continue to move the unallocated space leftwards:



2. Unallocated space moved behind to the C: system partition, drag the C: right side to add the unallocated space:



3. After click "Apply" on the toolbar and about several minutes later, launch Aomei Partition Assistant again, you will see the changes—The C: system partition was enlarged and the F: partition was shrunk

Create partition Windows 7

Actually, Windows built-in Disk Management could create partition as well. However, before the steps, we point following 2 real cases about Windows 7 Disk Management create partition:

1. If the disk contains four primary partition already, when create partition will receive the tip like:



2. If the disk contains three primary partition and one logical partition, recreate the unallocated space which is shrunk from one primary partition, the following tip will pop out to stop creating:

So, at this time, we need Aomei Partition Assistant to create partition for Windows 7.

1. Back to the shrink partition introduced above, after shrink F: partition, right click the unallocated space choose "Create" in the drop-down menu:



2. In the new window, you could set the partition label, drive letter and change the size by dragging as well:

Partition Label: Choose your own special name to partition so that you can get better understand on this partition.
Drive Letter: Select the provided drive letters in the drop-down menu. (You also can choose "None", that means this newly created partition will be hidden.)
Create As:

• Two choices—Primary partition and Logic partition.
• Primary partition is used for setting active; Windows operating systems or other systems are start from primary partition.
• Logic partition, to some extent, it is extended partition.

File System:
• NTFS, FAT32 and FAT.
• NTFS supersedes the FAT file system as the preferred file system for Microsoft’s Windows operating systems nowadays.
• FAT32 and FAT are old file systems; they are simple and readable to work on a large number of operating systems. They can not support the file which is larger than 4GB.




3. After click "Apply" you will see the partition was created:

Delete and format partition

Right click the target partition which needs to be deleted or formatted and choose "Delete" or "Format" option:

1. Delete partition, you could choose which choice you prefer: only delete partition or delete partition and wipe all data on the partition, then click "OK":



2. Format partition, you could set partition label and file system as you like, about the cluster size, we suggest you do not change it, click "OK":



3. Click "Apply" on the toolbar to commit the changes.

Summary of partition a hard drive Windows 7

Partition hard drive for Windows 7 is done! You could realize your own requirements like dual boot through this reliable partition magic Windows 7. Besides these main features, Aomei Partition Assistant also could copy partition to another partition, hide/unhide partition, set partition as active and so on.

Related Tutorials

1. Copy partition to new hard drive without data losing
2. Extend system partition to unallocated space on Windows Server 2000, 2003 and 2008
3. Partition magic Windows 8/7/Vista/XP resizes partition easily
4. Realize dual boot Windows XP and Windows 7 with Aomei Partition Assistant