Create partition
As is known to all, computer users are used to saving data to hard disk by category. That is to say, data of the same type are often placed in the same partition. Thus, when users want to put a new type of data into computer, they'd better create a new partition for easy access and convenient management.
Select unallocated space -> choose 'Create' option from the Disk management page.
- File System - You can choose to format the partition as FAT, FAT32, NTFS, or just leave it unformatted.
- Cluster Size - You can choose cluster size. We recommend to keep the cluster size as default unless they have special needs, they can change it to 512, 1k, 2k, 4k, 8k, 16k, 32k or 64k.
- Volume Label - You can give a label to the newly created partition in order to remind themselves of its content.
- Size And Location - You can choose to drag the blue on both ends or input specific values to textboxes below to determine the size and location of new partition.
- Optimize for SSD - If the destination disk is SSD, check this option will ensure sector alignment in the process.
- Set active - This function can only work for the Primary Partitions in the hard disk with MBR mode partitions. Only one primary partition can be set as active among all the primary partitions in the hard disk. The computer can only boot from the main partition that is set active.
- Disk type You can choose to initialize a GPT disk or MBR disk if the disk is not initialized.
- Click Proceed to execute create partition.
- Click Cancel to cancel the operation.