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Weve alWays advocated keeping your docs, files, and other data on a drive thats separate from
Windows and your applications. That way if something goes wrong with Windows, your data is
more likely to remain safe. Its not always viable to purchase a second internal hard drive for
your PC though, which is where partitioning comes in handy.
Partitioning allows you to divide a large hard drive into two or more smaller drives, which
Windows will treat as if they were separate physical drives. Of course, a physical defect with
the hard drive will affect both partitions, but it will be much more difficult for software-related
problems to wipe out your Windows files and your personal documents at the same time.
In this tutorial well show you how to divide a single drive into two partitions, then move your
data to the new partition so Windows knows where to find it. Nick Peers
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then right-click it and choose the Change Drive Letter and Paths
option. Now, click Change to pick a new drive letter (such as Z) and
click OK (image K), followed by Yes. Now, right-click your new data
partition and select Change Drive Letter and Paths when youre
done. Finally, click Add, select drive D, and click OK.
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Create a New PartitioN Now, wait while Windows resizes the drive. When its complete, youll see
that a new unallocated section will appear next to the
drive in the Disk Management window. This will become your
new data partition. To set it up, right-click the empty space
and choose New Simple Volume. Now, click Next on the
New Simple Volume Wizard.
When asked to specify the volume size, leave the default
figure alone and click Next (image J). If you want to assign
drive letter D to the new partition, simply select Do not assign a drive letter or drive path for now, and click Next. Give
the volume a suitable label (such as Data), leave the other
options as they appear, and click Next, followed by Finish.
Locate the drive thats been allocated the D drive letter,
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