Partition a new hard disk

As digital media more and more popular, computers are our storage space more and more on the hard disk. The price of high-capacity hard drives continuously meet the lower prices, it is now not just computer enthusiasts, the drives are new, their new computers.

While it is relatively easy, especially with SATA hard drives to a new drive - it is not immediately obvious to everyone how to drive only with a new you.that the hard drive is connected properly, it is recognized in the system BIOS, but it is 'missing' My Computer.

That's because it was not formatted. But actually, each disk has a partition plate - even if it is the full size of the physical, the word is' usually refers drive partition to divide a - in more than one logical drive.

Windows has its own tool for the job - as a "Disk Management". In contrast to 'My Computer', iteach hard drive connected to the system - formatted / partitioned or not.

Access it by right clicking on My Computer and select Manage. In the left pane, select "Disk Management" Now, in the right pane, you will see your hard drives and optical drives - hopefully the new drive appears to as "unallocated space".

New disks appear as uninitialized. Microsoft, that when you start Disk Management after adding aDisc is the Initialize Disk Wizard so you can initialize the disk. If for any reason, you can initialize it manually. Simply right-click on the new drives 'label' (the gray box to the right of the black bar that denotes the unallocated space) and select the "Initialize".

When finished, you can begin drive to format. Here are the instructions to create a single partition the full size of the new hard drive. The right of free space on the basic disk youTo format, and then click New Partition. In the New Partition Wizard, click Next, choose "Primary Partition", click Next. Do not create dynamic disks here if you do what you specifically want to know. Once created, the no way back without wiping the drive.

Enter the full size of the disk in the "Partition size in MB" field and then click Next. Assign a drive letter to the drive, click a Next, format the partition to, click"Format this partition with the following settings', type a name for the drive into the" Volume Label "field if you want, and choose" NTFS "in the" File System "field. Not change the" division size 'or the compression in the options.

I would also suggest not performing a "quick format" on a new drive. The full format checks the entire surface of the disk.

Now go and get something to eat / drink, like a large drive, this couldWhile.If take more than one partition on the disk to create, the steps are similar, apart from the size of the partition that you create with it. To create a second partition on the drive, select the remaining free space, and repeat the steps.

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