Teach you to partition the hard disk under Win7 system

Click the "Start" button and right click on the "Computer" option in the "Start" menu and select "Manage" from the pop-up menu.

Open Computer Management Menu

If the current user is using a standard account, the user will be asked to enter the administrator account credentials.

In the "Computer Management" window that pops up, expand the "Storage" item in the left navigation bar, click the "Disk Management" option, then the Disk Management Tool will be loaded in the right pane.

Hard Disk Management

Click "Unallocated" space in Disk 0 (if it is the second hard disk, it is Disk 1, and so on), right click "New Simple Volume", the "New Simple Volume Wizard" dialog box shown below will appear.

New Simple Volume Wizard

Click the “Next” button on the “New Simple Volume” wizard welcome screen to display the page for setting the partition size, as shown below. Shown.

Set partition size

Windows allows users to create partitions with a minimum space of 8MB and no space limit (if there is enough space to allocate), the unit here is megabytes. Bytes (MB), which can be allocated by the user based on the disk's allocatable space and personal needs.

After setting the partition size and clicking the "Next" button, the Assign Drive Letter and Path page will be displayed. The user needs to set a drive letter or path.

Assigning the drive letter

After setting the partition allocation method, click the "Next" button, the formatted page of the partition will be displayed, and the partition will be made available. The partition must be formatted, and in this step you can make simple settings for formatting.

Formatting Settings

Clicking the "Next" button after setting the formatting options will display the completion page of the "New Simple Volume Wizard". The settings for creating a partition selected by the user will be displayed here.

Complete partition creation

If the settings are incorrect, click the “Back” button and return to the corresponding steps to reset.

After confirmation, click the "Finish" button and the system will create a partition for the physical disk. When the partition is created, the system will automatically connect to the new partition. It will be possible to display the dialog shown in the figure. The user can select the operation or close the dialog box as needed.

Detecting new disk partitions

In some cases it may be necessary to adjust the total capacity of the C drive, such as the pre-installed Windows 7 operating system
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. If there is only one C drive partition, and the capacity of the partition is large, resulting in less space for other allocable disks, you can solve the problem through the "compression" function in the disk management tool.

Select the C drive partition on the disk management interface, and right click to select the "compressed volume" option.

Compressed Volumes

The Disk Utility will automatically check the space available for the selected partition for compression, the time it takes, and the hardware performance and disk space of the computer.

Query Compressible Space

After completing the check, the "Compress" dialog will be displayed, showing the total size of the current partition, the space available for compression, and the input. The compressed space and the total size after compression.

Entering the amount of compressed space

By default, the disk management tool will automatically fill in the maximum space available for compression in the "Input Compressed Space" input box. Change it yourself. After you determine the amount of space to compress and click the Compress button, the Disk Management tool compresses the partition.

After a while, you can see the compressed partition and the unallocated space released by the compressed partition, the size of which is equal to the amount of compressed space set during compression.