How to Partition a Hard Drive in Windows 10/11? No matter which reason makes them partition hard drive in Windows 10/11, there is no doubt that this is a wise choice for them. What’s more important is that if one day your system is crashed, you just need to reinstall system the programs or data stored in other partitions are still safe.īesides the two reasons mentioned above, some users partition hard drive due to they want to have multiple operating systems on the same computer or they worry too many things in the same partition will drop down the speed of computer. In this way, it is more convenience for you to manage your different data. Nobody wants this exist in his life, so more partitions to store different things or used to backup are really necessary.Īnother reason is that you can separate your operating system, programs and data. What will happen? If there was only one partition on hard drive that means all of your data will be wiped after formatting. One reason is that your computer can be attacked by virus someday, if this disaster happens on your partition and you format the partition. Why do they need more partitions?Īs for most of users, there are two essential reasons. However, most Windows 10/11 users will create more partitions if there is only one partition or C: drive on hard drive. Usually, there is only one partition on hard drive which is made by the computer manufacturers. Why Need to Partition Hard Drive in Windows 10?

Therefore, after installing a hard drive in Windows 10,/11 you need to partition it at first, and then format it before it can be available to Windows 10/11. Some partitions are available to operating system while you can store data in the others partitions.

The computer will regard each partition as a separate disk and each of them will be showed under 'Windows Explorer' (Local Disk C:, Local Disk D:, Local Disk E: and so on ). After partitioning a hard drive, there are more partitions. A partition is a part of a hard drive and you have the choice to determine the number of partition on your hard drive.

Windows drive manager