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You must have at least 1 megabyte (MB) of unallocated disk space available on any master boot record (MBR) basic disk that you want to change to a dynamic disk.

You must delete all logical drives before you can delete the extended partition.īefore you change a basic disk to a dynamic disk, note the following instructions:

You cannot delete an extended partition unless the extended partition is empty.

You cannot delete the system partition, the boot partition, or a partition that contains the active paging (swap) file.

When you delete a partition or logical drive, you delete all data on that partition or logical drive and the partition or logical drive itself.

In the Disk Management window, right-click the partition or logical drive that you want to delete, and then click Delete Partition or Delete Logical Drive.Ĭlick Yes when you are prompted to confirm the deletion.

Click the appropriate tab to view a property.

In the Disk Management window, right-click the partition or logical drive that you want to view the properties of, and then click Properties.

View the Properties of a Partition or Logical Drive

Click OK when you are prompted to confirm the formatting changes.

Specify the formatting options that you want, and then click OK.

In the Disk Management window, right-click the partition or logical drive that you want to format, and then click Format.

If you chose to format the partition in step 6, the format process now starts. On the Completing the New Partition Wizard page, verify that the options that you selected are correct, and then click Finish.ĭisk Management creates the new partition or logical drive and displays it in the appropriate basic disk in the Disk Management window. On the Format Partition page, specify the formatting options that you want, and then click Next. On the Assign Drive Letter or Path page, enter a drive letter or drive path, and then click Next. On the Specify Partition Size page, specify the size in megabytes (MB) of the partition that you want to create, and then click Next. On the Select Partition Type page, click the type of partition that you want to create, and then click Next. On the Welcome to the New Partition Wizard page, click Next.

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To create a new logical drive, right-click free space on an extended partition where you want to create the logical drive, and then click New Logical Drive.To create a new partition, right-click unallocated space on the basic disk where you want to create the partition, and then click New Partition.In the Disk Management window, choose one to create:

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Windows Server 2003 operating systems and Windows XP Professional do not support multidisk basic volumes (such as spanned, mirrored, stripe sets, or stripe sets with parity) that were created by using Windows NT 4.0 or earlier. These operating systems cannot access data that is stored on dynamic disks. Use basic disks, instead of dynamic disks, on computers that run Microsoft Windows XP Professional or a member of Windows Server 2003 that are configured to dual-boot or multi-boot with Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition, Microsoft Windows NT 4.0, Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition (Me), Microsoft Windows 98 or earlier, or Microsoft MS-DOS. Because you are not limited to four partitions on GPT disks, you do not have to create extended partitions on logical drives. On GUID partition table (GPT) disks, you can create up to 128 primary partitions. You can also use free space on an extended partition to create logical drives. On master boot record (MBR) disks, you can create up to four primary partitions on a basic disk, or up to three primary partitions and one extended partition. A basic disk is a physical disk that contains basic volumes (primary partitions, extended partitions, or logical drives). If you cancel the wizard, you may find that when you try to create a partition on the new hard disk, the Create Partition option is unavailable (appears dimmed).īasic disk storage supports partition-oriented disks.

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The first time that you run the Disk Management snap-in after a new hard disk is installed, the Disk Signature and Upgrade Disk Wizard starts. Before a new, unpartitioned disk can be used in Windows (partitioned or upgraded to Dynamic Disk), it must contain a disk signature.

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