Win XP system disk partitioning skills introduction

I believe you are also using xp system, although many people have upgraded the system from winxp to win7, but from the market share, XP is still the boss of the system, there are Many computer beginners are still used to XP. It’s too early for the fancy Win7 to become a share of XP. Since XP is still the mainstream, we will dig deep into its potential. For example, the five tips for disk partitioning in XP described below are that 90% of users have not paid attention to it. In fact, disk partitioning is also learned, but most users do not Focus on this.

1. Partition and format the hard disk in one minute

Right click on “My Computer”, select “Manage” command. In the "Computer Management" window that opens, expand the "Computer Management" &rarquo;“Storage”→“Disk Management” item. After that, you can see the partition status of the current hard disk in the right pane.

Right-click on the disk space of "Unsigned" and select the "New Disk Partition" command. In the disk partition wizard window that pops up, select the partition type as “Extended partition” and click “Next” to enter the capacity of the new partition. Then set the disk file format of the partition and check “&ldquo ; do not format the & rdquo; item, and finally click the & ldquo; complete & rdquo; button to complete the partition operation. Then open "My Computer", right click on the new partition, select the "Format" & rdquo; command, use the quick format, you can complete the partition to format all operations within one minute.

2. Folding and merging disk partitions

If a partition on a hard disk is too large, split it into two partitions. First save all the files in the disk partition to other partitions. Then right click on the partition in "Disk Management" and select the “Delete Logical Partition” command. After confirming, the partition is deleted. At this time, the partition will be recognized as "unsigned" disk space in the list.

After that, as in the above operation, on the disk space of “Unsigned”, use the “New Disk Partition” command to set the size of the newly created partition and format the newly created two partitions. Just fine.

When you need to merge two partitions, you can save all the data and use the “Delete Logical Partitions command to get two blank "unassigned" partitions. Then select the “ unassigned & rdquo; partition, right click and select the "New Disk Partition" command to complete the partition consolidation.

3.Compressing partitions to increase disk space

If a disk partition space is tight and the data in the partition is not frequently read, the partition can be compressed to “ & rdquo; can use space. Since the compressed partition must be in the NTFS disk format, for partitions using the FAT32 disk format, first execute the "Convert drive letter /FS:NTFS” command in the command prompt window to convert the partition to NTFS disk. format. After that, right click on the partition you want to compress and select the “Properties” command. In the window that opens, select the “General” tab and check the "Compress drive to save disk space" item. After the window is closed, the system will perform a disk compression operation. Upon completion, the remaining space of the partition will be increased.