Create a New Partition on a Windows 7 Hard Disk........

A new partition on the disc can be easily created using the Windows 7 disc management tool. Here is an easy way to create a new partition on your disk.

1. Open the Disk Management console by typing diskmgmt.msc at an elevated command prompt. 

2. In Disk Management window, right-click an unallocated or free area, and then click New Simple Volume. This starts the New Simple Volume Wizard.

3. Read the Welcome page and then click Next. 

4. The Specify Volume Size page specifies the minimum and maximum size for the volume in megabytes and lets you size the volume within these limits. Enter the Size for the partition in megabytes using the Simple Volume Size field and then click Next. 

5. On the Assign Drive Letter Or Path page, specify whether you want to assign a drive letter or path and then click Next. 

{Select an available drive letter in the selection list provided. By default, Windows 7 selects the lowest available drive letter and excludes reserved drive letters as well as those assigned to local disks or network drives. }

6. Use the Format Partition page to determine whether and how the volume should be formatted. If you want to format the volume, choose "Format This Volume With the following settings", and then configure the other options. In case of "File system", NTFS is selected by default in most cases. If you create a file system as FAT or FAT32, you can later convert it to NTFS by using the Convert utility. However, you can't convert NTFS partitions to FAT or FAT32. Then comes the "Allocation unit size". Here the default allocation unit size is based on the size of the volume and, by default, is set dynamically. Then under "Volume label" you can give the new label a name but you can always change it later. It should look like the following:  

7. Click Next, confirm your options, and then click Finish. 

The Windows 7 Disk Management tool will now show you new partition.