Here are five easy ways to create a new hard drive partition using Settings app, Disk Management, Command Prompt, PowerShell, and Setup in Windows 11.
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In Windows 11, you can create a new partition on a hard drive using various tools. In this guide, we'll show you how to use the Settings app, Disk Management, Command Prompt, PowerShell, and Installation Setup. A partition (also called a volume) describes the logical section on the drive that is formatted and configured with a file system (such as NTFS or FAT32) and drive letter to store files. Typically, you can have multiple partitions on the hard drive, which appear as different drives in File Explorer.
You can create as many partitions as you need, but there are limitations depending on the partition style. For example, if the device uses the Master Boot Record (MBR) partition style, you can only have up to four "primary" partitions. Only one of these can be set as "active." Typically, this is the partition where the operating system is installed.
Also, partition number four will automatically be converted to an "extended" partition. An extended partition cannot store data, but allows you to have additional "logical" partitions. With this workaround, the system can have more than four partitions. Technically, within an extended partition, there is no limit to the number of partitions you can create.
