A one terabyte hard drive can store up to 1,000 gigabytes or 1,000,000,000,000 bytes of information. By partitioning your computer's one terabyte hard drive, you can split your computer's hard drive into multiple pieces of any size. Windows 7 has a Computer Management feature that allows you to create these partitions and divide your computer's hard drive into multiple parts.
Instructions
1. Restart your computer and log on to windows as an administrator. When the Windows sign-on screen appears, select an account that has administrator privileges. By default, there is a Windows profile labeled "Administrator." The password for this profile is "Password." If your Windows sign-on has only one account, this account by default is an administrator account.
2. Click the Windows Start button. The Start button is generally located in the lower-left corner of your Windows screen.
3. Select "Control Panel" and click the "System and Security" option.
4. Click "Administrative Tools."
5. Double-click the "Computer Management" option. A Computer Management window will automatically open.
6. Find the "Disk Management" option located under the "Storage" subsection on the left side of the Computer Management window. On the right side of the Computer Management window you will find a graphical representation of your computer's hard drive. This graphical representation will show the allocated (used) portion of your hard drive and the unallocated (unused) portion of the drive.
7. Right-click on the unallocated portion of the hard drive.
8. Click the "New Simple Volume" option. The New Simple Volume Wizard will automatically open in a new window.
9. Click the "Next" button.
10. Type the size of the partition you want to create in the text box. Express the size in megabytes (MB).
11. Select a letter of the alphabet as a name for your new partition and click the "Next" button.
12. Click the "Next" button and then click the "Finish" button to save your settings and create the partition on your hard drive.
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