Don't be bothered by a partition

With students going back to school successively, computer market becomes hot again and all merchant go to any lengths to attract customers. It may be the top thing you do in the new semester to get a laptop for study and entertainment. However, after you acquire the admired computer, you may find there is only one large partition – Partition C:, which is not consistent with our using habit. Is there something wrong with the laptop? You must be very frustrated at this time.

Actually, this situation is common. Many laptops are pre-installed into operating systems. For the sake of convenience, many manufactures will divide the disk into one partition and then install the operating system. If you are purchasing the computer in the rush hours and many retailers will not spend time on partitioning for you. Their convenience brings us a lot of inconvenience. If we store all files like music and moves in Partition C: disk files will be disordered as time passes by. To resolve the problem, we have to repartition hard disk.

Man users may think that we have to format the hard disk before repartitioning it and it is a pity that we format the authorized operating system. It was the past situation. Nowadays, we can partition disk without formatting. In Windows 7 operating system, we can use the built-in disk management tool. Firstly, select Partition C: and right click mouse. And click "Shrink Volume" in the popping up menu and then input exact value of the shrunk partition. After the operation, an unallocated space will appear behind Partition C: and we can create partition. It should be reminded that shrinking Partition C: in this way is of some risks and partition data may be damaged or lost. So another method is suggested. We can use the partition magic MiniTool Partition Wizard. Firstly, we should employ the function Move/Resize to resize partition and then create partition with the function "Create". The whole process is quick and safe. During resizing partition, Enhanced Data Protecting Mode is able to guarantee data security in the situation of sudden power outage or hardware failure. And the partition manager has concise operating interface. We can finish all operations by clicking mouse.

For a student, a laptop will cost much money. So some tiny problems like single partition will make you feel it not worth of the money and your mood will be influenced. However, it is not necessary. We can resolve those little problems. And if we can not, we can turn to after-sale service. In addition, when purchasing laptop, we should unpack it and check every configuration. And you can initiatively ask the retails to partition the hard disk. However, never let the little problems affect you.