How to split the hard drive on Windows 11 without losing data

The hard drive division on Windows 11 sounds complicated, but in fact they are very simple, you just need to spend a few minutes following us to be able to create more new drives with different capacities by dividing Simple hard drive, serving the needs of use without any software.

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How to partition hard drive on Windows 11 without software

 

Instructions to split Windows 11 hard drive without software

Step 1: Right- click the This PC (My Computer) icon on the Desktop => select Manage in the new panel that appears.

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Step 2: In the Computer Management panel , select Disk Management at the Storage tab . Here you right click on the drive to be split on Windows 11 => select Shrink Volume.
- For example: We want to split Taimienphi.vn (D:) drive as shown below

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Step 3: You enter the new partition capacity in the box Enter the amount of space to shrink in MB in units of Megabytes ( 1GB = 1024MB ) => select Shrink .
- Total Size before shrink in MB: Size of partition before dividing (in MB)
- Size of available shrink space in MB: Free space (in MB)
- Enter the amount of space to shrink in MB: Capacity new partition volume (MB)
- Total size after shrink in MB: Remaining space of old partition after dividing new partition

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Step 4: Next, right- click on the new Unallocated empty partition that appears => select New Simple Volume.

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Step 5: Click Next =>  Next => set the partition symbol name at Assign the following drive letter (eg name H) => select Next .

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Step 6: Choose the new partition format as NTFS or FAT32 in File System => set Partition Name => click Next => click Finish to create a new partition.
- Note: NTFS format allows files larger than 4GB, but with FAT32 you cannot store or copy data larger than 4GB.

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- Immediately after creation, you will see a new H partition with the selected capacity.

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- In This PC (My Computer) you also see your new partition.

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Above are the steps to split the hard drive on Windows 11 without using software, hope they help useful for you. In addition, you can also use EaseUS Partition Master to split the drive on Windows 11 if the machine is pre-installed.

Reference: How to split the drive with EaseUS Partition Master software

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