Note than once you have successfully created a new partition, you cannot merge the partition back into the existing partition without data loss. If you need more partitions, just repeat this procedure. Then Click "Finish" to start to partition the drive. Follow the instructions to assign a drive letter, and file system. If you only want to use the space to create a single partition, you don’t need to enter the volume size and just click "Next", thus, it will maximum size by default.ĥ. In the next screen, enter the volume size that you desire and Click “Next”. Right-click the unallocated space gained by shrinking a primary partition or free space gained by shrinking a logical partition on the WD portable drive and select "New Simple Volume."Ĥ. Right-click the existing volume on the portable hard drive, choose "Shrink Volume" in the drop down menu and follow the Shrink Volume Wizard to shrink the partition to get unallocated space or free space.ģ. To open Disk Management, you can type “diskmgmt.msc” in the Search box or Run box and press Enter.Ģ. Connect your WD external hard drive to your computer, and open Disk Management. As you know, Formatting hard drive will erase all the data, so it is recommended to back up all the crucial files.ġ. Therefore, if the partitions on your hard drive are using the FAT32 file system, you need to reformat it or convert to NTFS. Disk Management can only shrink or extend partitions formatted with NTFS. Partition WD hard drive with Disk ManagementĪvailable in Windows 10/8/7, Disk Management allows you to manage your disks and partitions with a simple, graphical interface. You can use Windows built in utility Disk Management or third party partition software to partition WD hard drive. To partition an external hard drive is not as difficult as many people think it is. You can also clean the hard drive and repartition hard drive. With the existing partitions, you can shrink, extend, and create new partitions. What’s more, if one partition corrupt, it won’t affect the rest of the partitions on the external hard drive. Therefore, you can easily locate the right file when you need.
Nevertheless, if you want to get your things better organized by saving different files into separate sections, you can need to partition WD external portable hard drive. Why partition a hard drive?ĭifferent from internal hard drives, WD external portable hard drives has been partitioned and formatted before shipping. The WD External Portable Hard Drive mainly includes WD Elements Portable and My Passport Ultra. WD is short for Western Digital, which is a leading provider of best-selling Internal & External Hard Drives and award-winning Media Player & Network Drives.
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