Before making any changes to your partitions, I recommend backing up your important PC data. Partition operations always carry some risk, and while the built-in Windows tools are reliable ...

Whether you're doing a fresh installation of Windows 7 or formating your hard drive to reinstall Windows XP from scratch, a separate data partition comes in handy.

Learn how to use Disk Management Tool in Windows 11/10 to create a new partition, extend a partition, shrink a partition, format and more.

Windows allows you to create multiple FAT32 and NTFS partitions on a USB or External drive using Diskpart, Disk Management, MakeWinPEMedia.

Cedric Crawley wants to keep Windows 7 and his applications in one partition, and his data in another. Creating a separate data partition protects both your system and your data.