Partition Your Harddrive with EASEUS Partition Manager

Pt. 2 of 5 | 2:48 |

Manage Hard drive Partitions with EASEUS Partition Manager

Tuesday May 5, 2009

Hard drives are available in sizes up to and exceeding 1 terabyte. That's over 1,000 gigabytes. That's a big drive! If you'd rather break it down into more workable sections you'll want to partition the hard drive. If you have a hard drive that someone else partitioned you may want to repartition it. Either way you can use EASEUS Partition Manager to manipulate your hard drive the way you want.

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Show Notes

- Open EASEUS Partition Manager.

- To partition, or repartion a drive click on Partition, and then on Create.

- The dialog will show you the available space.

- You can select the type of file system, the drive letter, default sectors, and give the new partition a name.

- When you're done just click OK.

- The partition or repartition will take place the next time the computer reboots.

- The Primary partition is also the Active partition where the operating system resides and where the computer boots from.

- Partitions made within the space of the physical hard drive are called Logical drives or partitions.

- Partitions can be helpful for keeping things separated on today's larger hard drives.

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