Create Partition in Hard Drive More Easily

Peoples don't want to setup their hard drive as one giant data dump. Dividing your disk into multiple partitions makes multitasking easier. Keeping different types of data such as work documents, games, video files, etc in a partition separate from the operating system can greatly improve your computer's performance. And if you are indenting to use multiple operating systems then you will absolutely need to create multiple partitions to resolve the problem.

On a basic disk, the partition is classified as Primary and Logical Partition below:
Primary Partition: A maximum of four partitions can be placed on any hard disk. These are sometimes called primary partitions. The limitation of four is one that is imposed on the system by the way that the master boot record is structured. Only one partition may be set as active at any given time. That partition will be used for booting the system. You can switch active status between partitions.
Logical Partition: One of the four partitions may be designated as an extended partition. This partition may then be subdivided into multiple logical partitions. This is the way that two or more logical volumes can be placed on a single hard disk in Windows Platform.

What Is Partitioning?
A partition can be assumed as a container, like one drawer of a file cabinet. Each partition uses a file system to store user’s files. Usually, in Windows 98 used FAT32 which allowed greater maximum partition sizes and stored data more efficiently than the FAT16 file system of DOS and Windows 95. Windows 2000/XP introduced NTFS file system, which provides better data security and efficient memory handling. Now, Windows 7 and Vista also continue to use FAT32/NTFS to format partition. Besides, a new file system, exFAT is used for removable external storages such as USB disk in Win7.

Create Partitions
To start partitioning in Windows 2000/Xp environment, right click My Computer and select Manage, once you enter into the Manage screen, from here select Disk Management. Here usually open up a wizard to help partition and format your new drive. Moreover, you can make a partition more easily by the 3rd party software like Partition Assistant to realize these operations that create, delete, format and resize/move partition.