How To Partition of External Hard Drive without Formatting in Windows 10

To Create Partition of External Hard Drive without Formatting in Windows 10, follow these simple steps:
First of all, search for “Disk Management” and then open the first search result which would be “Create and format hard disk partitions”.
In the opening window, you can see two rows one with a title of “Disk 0” and the next one with “Disk 1”. The Disk0 is the drives in your computer and the Disk 1 is the external hard drive.
Towards the Disk 1, you can see the primary partition of the external hard drive with the full storage. Now, to create new partitions you have to take out some storage from the primary partition. To do so, right click on the primary partition with the full storage and click “Shrink”. In the next window, enter the volume you want to take out from the total storage capacity. In this video, I have 1 TB External Hard drive and I would like to create 2 new partitions of 300GB each after giving around 400 GB to the primary partition. So, I entered there 600 GB. (Please note that, we have to enter the same in MB format). Then click “Shrink”.
Now, you can see the shrank volume of 600 GB with a label of “Unallocated”.
Now, right click on the Unallocated storage volume, click “New Simple Volume”. In the opening window, click ‘next’ then enter the size of the first partition you are going to create. Then click next and change the assigned letter of the new partition if you think so and click “next”. Then, in the next window, select the option to “Format the new volume” and remove the default volume label if you think so, click ‘next’ and in the next window, click “Finish”. Now, you have created a new partition.
Now, once again, right click on the remaining “Unallocated” Volume, and click ‘New Simple Volume’. Click ‘Next’. Enter the volume of next partition to create. If you want to create only one more partition leave the figure there as it is. Then click next and change the assigned letter of the new partition if you think so and click “next”. Then, in the next window, select the option to “Format the new volume” and remove the default volume label if you think so, click ‘next’ and in the next window, click “Finish”. Congratulation…!! You have done it..!!
This video will be an answer for your queries such as:
How to partition of 1 TB External disks in Windows 10?
How to make partition of External HDD or SSD?
My external hard drive has only one partition. What to do?
How to divide external hard drive into two more partitions?
How to create more partitions in the External HDD?
I want more partitions in my external hard drive, what to do?

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[joycec.]

And I thought, I needed to follow all those steps from all the researches I made all these months! Really glad I found your tutorial! Made it so easy! Thank you!

[drsajanpm]

Very simple and very helpful! Thanks for the video

[indikakularatne]

crystal clear explanation. good work !!!!

[nathanaelsichilombe]

Thank you... It's been very helpful

[technews]

Thank you....very easy and straight forward steps🎉🎉

[SL-Sajib]

thanks for your better Guide line
for divided of portable Hard Drive

[y]

Thank you very much! Needed to partion an external hdd for creating a system image backup 😊.

[SingerOmayChannel]

Hi I wanna know if I can use external hard drive as main memory? because I had my main which is 24Gb only but now its 500mb available and I need another space because I cant use it in a longer time, it will appear disk is full.

[ItsGrawVez]

This worked for me, thanks so much! I was able to partition and format my 2 TB hard drive into 2 separate hard drive partitions (1800 GB - FAT32, 200 GB - exFAT)

[XavierBaker]

will this erase the current contents of the drive?

[MASJYT]

Can you have different partitions in different formats? Let's say FAT32 and NTFS on the same drive.

[danielteyehuago]

Please how can I partition hard drive of 1TB into two equal parts

[aldecoamarkanthonyc]

What if the shrink volume isn't enabled?

[AnudeepTheGamer]

Please Make a Video on How to Format a Write Protected Pendrive

[freakguitargod]

why is the shrink volume grayed out for me and cannot make a partition??

[BloodSlayer]

My disk is in exfat and the shrink option is not working

[do-it-myself]

Why do you have to remove label? I think it's better to label the partitions.

[joarnold]

He be like hello I am under the water please help me 😂 😂