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Cincinnati Data Recovery - How to Create A Partition without Formatting
Following are steps to be followed while creating a partition without formatting:
First step would be to Left click on the Start button which is located on the lower left side of your desktop. Then left click the Control Panel which is located on the resulting start menu.
Next step would be to double left click the Administrative Tools icon which is located on the control panel window.
Double click on the Computer Management. Then left click the Disk Management
which is located on the left most of the computer management window. By following this would list the installed drives in the middle frame of the computer management window.
Now, right click the drive on which you want to create a partition. This will give a context menu of available drive operations. Now left lick on the Shrink Volume heading from the context menu.
You can now enter an amount of hard drive space, which is measured in
megabytes, by which to shrink the currently active partition. The amount you have entered here will be the maximum size of the new partition you create.
The next step would be to click the Shrink button to begin the partition shrinking process. Depending on the size of your hard drive, this process might take some time (Few minutes).
After the completion of the shrinking process now, right click the newly formed unallocated space on your hard drive. This will produce a context menu.
By left clicking the Format heading it will produce the format dialog box.
Regards,
John Marshal.
Thanks to L&C Sunshine Technology.
First step would be to Left click on the Start button which is located on the lower left side of your desktop. Then left click the Control Panel which is located on the resulting start menu.
Next step would be to double left click the Administrative Tools icon which is located on the control panel window.
Double click on the Computer Management. Then left click the Disk Management
which is located on the left most of the computer management window. By following this would list the installed drives in the middle frame of the computer management window.
Now, right click the drive on which you want to create a partition. This will give a context menu of available drive operations. Now left lick on the Shrink Volume heading from the context menu.
You can now enter an amount of hard drive space, which is measured in
megabytes, by which to shrink the currently active partition. The amount you have entered here will be the maximum size of the new partition you create.
The next step would be to click the Shrink button to begin the partition shrinking process. Depending on the size of your hard drive, this process might take some time (Few minutes).
After the completion of the shrinking process now, right click the newly formed unallocated space on your hard drive. This will produce a context menu.
By left clicking the Format heading it will produce the format dialog box.
Regards,
John Marshal.
Thanks to L&C Sunshine Technology.