You cannot format a disk or partition that is currently in use, including the partition that contains Windows. The Perform a quick format option will create a new file table, but will not fully overwrite or erase the volume. A quick format is much faster than a normal format, which fully erases any existing data on the volume. Windows 7 More In the Format Partition dialog box, do one of the following: If you don't want to format the volume right now, select Do not format this volume , and then select Next.
To format the volume with the default settings, select Next. Review your choices, and then select Finish. Notes: You cannot format a disk or partition that is currently in use, including the partition that contains Windows. Need more help? Join the discussion. Was this information helpful? Yes No.
Thank you! Any more feedback? This mostly needs to be done only after you're buying a new hard drive or solid-state drive since you can't use it until you manually allocate a partition on it. First, you'll need to head over to the Disk Management tool. On Windows 10 and lower for the purposes of this tutorial, we're using Windows 10 , you will be able to find it on Windows Search and the Control Panel as "Create and format hard disk partitions.
Once you open the program, you will be able to see it under the list of disks, where you'll see the drive with its capacity listed as "unallocated space. Right-click on the drive and click on New Simple Volume to get the drive set up. From there, the New Simple Volume Wizard will open, which will walk you through the process of getting a volume created on your drive.
If you want to use it as a normal drive, you probably don't have to change anything. Set the simple volume size to the max it should already be in the max by default , assign it a drive letter this really doesn't matter a lot, so just assign it whatever you want or leave it default , then check whether you want to format the drive first or not—although it's highly recommended that you do. Choose the file system and the drive's volume name, click Next , and now you're done. The drive should now show up as an allocated partition instead of unallocated space, and Windows should be able to see it and write files to it as it does with other drives in your PC.
If you want to split your drive in two and have two different partitions in it, that's also something you can do, even if you previously allocated that space on your drive. The process for that, however, is a little bit more complicated. First off, we're going to have to shrink the already allocated partition.
This will make the current drive partition smaller and unallocate some space for the other partition in the process. To do this, just go to your trusty Disk Management tool, right-click on your drive , then click on Shrink Volume. Then, you'll have to shrink the volume enough depending on how big you want the second partition to be. The dialog gives you numbers in megabytes, not gigabytes, so make sure to take that into account while calculating.
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Cookie Settings. Learn why people trust wikiHow. Download Article Explore this Article Steps. Related Articles. This opens the Windows search bar. Type partition. A list of search results will appear. Click Create and format hard disk partitions. This opens the Disk Management utility. Right-click the drive you want to partition. A menu will appear. Click Shrink Volume….
The Shrink tool allows you to reduce the size of one partition to create space for another.
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