How to Partition a Windows 7 Hard Drive

It is possible to repartition your Windows 7 hard drive from within Windows 7 itself and it is a quite simple operation.

This screencast takes a look at what is involved in this quite simple procedure.
Repartitioning your hard drive is useful if you find that your computer has had its Windows installed on one large partition.
You may find that you would like to have a separate partition away from your Windows install to use as storage making thing easier if you have to reinstall Windows for any reason.

One of the big plus points of storing your data like this on a separate drive is that if you ever have problems with your Windows install or the C: drive you can simple just reinstall Windows again and you will not have to worry about all you other data due to it being on a different drive (always back your data up, check out www.diypcrepairs.net and do a search for a Windows 7 back-up walkthrough).

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[xyzqwerty777]

"you cannot create a new volume in this unallocated space because the disk already contains the maximum number of partitions" this is what comes up when i try splitting my hard drive plz help

[diypcrepairs]

@xyzqwerty777 You can only have four primary partitions, if you have four this is your problem.

[rozzalenda123]

THANK YOU <3 saved my time..can't thank you enough

[MaiwandEagle]

here i thought owe you a debt of gratitude to say THANKS...GOD bless you... thanks ...i liked and comment and added to my favourites :)

[YoungFellow06]

is it possible to form the two volumes into 1 again?

[DamnYouveBeenTrolled]

The procedure is the same if I want to install another OS on my shrinked disk?

[MrPozzzzzzzzzzzz]

thankss man!!!!!!!!!

[lustyinstigator]

Thank you! Very understandable and easy to follow! I appreciate you placing this information out here! Cheers!

[ajaynshrestha]

Thanks for your video. Help me in creating new volume in my comp

[allwyngidin]

Hi ..my name is allwyn ..i bought a new hardisk today....so i want to install 7 in it..it was 500gb so in partion 7 drive...i want to install 7 in the drive c( 50gb) ,but i notice that i can install in that drive c(50gb) i cant in the E(100gb) ..it says that windows 7 cannot install in it...why plz help....(i did it in the c(50gb) it works fine...)my question is y i cant install it in my E (100gb) partition ..