Similar to that, Windows 7 too come with a built-in facility to create, resize and delete partitions from a HDD, which means you can shrink or extend the partitions.

Whether you're doing a fresh installation of Windows 7 or formating your hard drive to reinstall Windows XP from scratch, a separate data partition comes in handy.

The available space on your PC's storage drive can be divided into separate blocks, or "partitions," but how do you do it and is it a good idea?

In Windows 7, click Start, or in Windows 8, go to the Search charm. In either one, type restore point, and select Create a restore point, then follow the prompts.

How to make Partition Read-only in Windows 11 You can set the read-only attribute to a specific partition of a hard disk. For this, you have to use the same command line utility, Diskpart.

Windows can and will crash — and after it does it may not boot normally. To be prepared for worst-case scenarios, learn how to create a bootable recovery partition on your system drive.

Learn how to Partition an SSD in Windows 11/10 through the Settings app, Disk Management tool, or the Diskpart command.