More about Hard Disk Partition

There are various ways for hard disk partition. The best part of partitioning the drive is that we can run different operating systems on a single hard disk. It is actually dividing the hard memory into different parts. Usually we can do this on a formatted hard drive.

So for hard disk partition, first we need to open the “command prompt’’. There we need to type "FDISK". Now the partition window will appear with onscreen options. Then, we need to enter “5” if we are partitioning a second drive and we need to select the drive; otherwise we can go to the next step. Then, we need to press “1” for creating DOS partition. Next option could be pressing “2”, to create extended DOS based partition. Then we can press “N” if the program asks whether we want to use the maximum available for hard disk partition. Here we need distribute the amount of disk space for the second partition and the partition will be assigned by the next drive letter. Now we need to type a name for the new partition and the partition menu will appear. Same way, we need to follow previous steps to create additional partitions. End of this, we can exit the hard disk partition command by pressing the “Esc” bottom from the keyboard. Now we can format the newly created partitions as per the system requirements.

However, few points we need to remember. That is, C drive should be allocated with 20 GB. Moreover, programs such as Partition Magic, makes hard disk partitioning much easier. But through FDISK procedure, system deletes all files, so it is better to take back ups for files we want to keep. In this way we can try hard disk partition from our own.