

When in doubt, it’s better to seek advice from a computer expert than to get involved in disk management yourself. So before playing around with partitions, you should be aware of what you are doing. If you act carelessly here, you could render your entire system unusable in the worst case – with a complete loss of your data. The most important thing first: Disk Management is no playground! We will show you how to use disk management the right way. The main purpose of such separate logical drives is to use a dual-boot system on a single hard disk, for example with parallel installations of Windows 8 and Windows 10 or with Windows 10 and Linux. Storage media such as hard disks or even USB sticks can be divided into several partitions if required and used under Windows as separate, so-called logical drives with their own drive letters. Here you will learn how to create and modify partitions with the Windows 10 Disk Manager. Windows 10 has everything you need to create, delete, shrink and format partitions thanks to the built-in disk management-tool. 2 How to Shrink a partition and free disk space for new partitions.

