Instructions to Divide and Merge Drives Right in Windows 7

If in Windows XP, when you want to split or merge disk partitions on a hard drive, we can't directly manipulate Windows but need to use external software (PQ Magic, Arconis, Paragon.). As for Windows 7, this is easy because that feature has been improved.

• Video tutorial to divide and merge drives right in Windows

1. How to divide the drive:

4 original drives in the computer (C; D; E; T)

Right-click My computer> select Manage (or hold down the window key + R > type diskmgmt.msc ) to open the drive management window in the computer

In this window select Disk Management (left)> right-click on the drive you want to share Shrink Volume . Here I choose drive T.

The partition table appears showing the information of the prepared drive. Enter the capacity of the new drive to create (in MB) in the box " Enter the amount of space to shrink in MB "> then press Shrink . Here I enter 30000 MB equivalent to 30 GB which will be the newly created volume.

We have seen a new partition in the drive management panel that has not been formatted yet. Right-click on this new drive and select New Simple Volume . to format this drive to use it.

Click Next to continue

This new drive is labeled G , which can be changed to another label> click the down button> Next

By default, it will switch to NTFS format, can be changed to another format depending on your needs> Next

Click Finish to finish. Thus the new hard drive partition labeled G , capacity of 30000 MB (equivalent to 3 GB) has been extracted from the original T drive ready to be used.

2. How to merge drives

Note:

- It is only possible to merge the drive right next to each other, the drive is not together. As an example,, look in the Computer Management table below, drive E is between two drives D and T, so you can combine drive E with drive D or drive E with drive T. And drive D with drive T is not side by side, so it cannot be merged with together.

- When adding drive A to drive B to form a common drive C, you must put a drive (A or B) into a new form (not yet formatted for use), then you can merge it. Therefore, it is necessary to backup the drive data to a new form to the other drive before proceeding to avoid data loss.

The specific example below with the newly created G (30 GB capacity) drive on top comes with a T (142 GB) drive next to a 172 GB drive.

Right-click this drive area> Delete Volume (bring the drive to a new, unused format)

The data alert box in this drive will be deleted, you previously backed up, and then click Yes to continue

Right-click the T > Extend Volume drive to merge the drive

The dialog box appears> Next

The new dialog box appears, the Available table lists unformatted drives next to the T drive, you can select Add (to push to Selected options). Here only 1 G drive has been selected> Next

Only after a few seconds is done. Click Finish to finish

So G drive has been imported into drive T