Partition (English: Partition), the file system and storage media management is a part of the memory or storage media which logically separate functioning as if physically separate sections. Partitioned storage media are memory (either physical memory or virtual memory by the operating system's memory manager), hard disk, magneto-optical disk (MO Disk), and some flash memory. Nevertheless, the term partition currently used to refer to the part of the hard disk. partition is created when the user makes by using the partitioning utility (such as utilities for DOS / Linux fdisk, fips, Disk Druid, Windows diskpart utility, or commercial product Symantec Norton Partition Magic ) and format it by giving it a specific file system.
Often we will create a new partition on the hard drive has a large capacity (500GB for example) into two or more partitions, for the purposes of installing another operating system such as ubuntu or windows 7, here we will show you how to create a new partition diharddisk, or how to zoom in and shrink the size of the partition in the hard disk using the operating system is Windows 7 or Windows Vista.
Windows 7 and vista are available utility partition, so we're not going to use a third party utility like norton partion magic etc, open the Control Panel and type "partition" in the search box, open the link that appears Ajah "Create and format hard disk partitions"Shrink Partition Size
In the Disk Management screen, right-click on the partition you want to shrink, and select "Shrink Volume" from the menu.
In the dialog box "Shrink", enter the partition size of the one we will use later on, for example, we want to create a new partition for 10Gb (from 50GB), type 10000 in the box "Enter the amount of space to shrink in MB:"
Adding a Partition Size
In the Disk Management screen, right-click on the partition that you want to add, and select "Extend Volume" from the menu.
On this screen, we will restore partition was reduced to its original size (50GB) so enter the value 10000 into the box "Select the amount in MB:"
Thus a way to shrink the size of the partition in add windows 7 and vista, so if we want to add a new partition, shrink the original partition first, then create a new partition by right-clicking an empty partition (10000 Unlocated) and select "New simple volume".Then a new window will pop up "New simple volume wizard". Click Next:
Next on the following window if we want to change the partition size will be made later, just enter the new size, if not, click next.
In the next window, we will be shown to select the new partition is to be drive E:-and we want to make the partition F: etc.. Click next.
Then we will be given the option to select the type of partition would be made whether to partition FAT, FAT32 or NTFS, and the option to quickly format the new partition (Perform a quick format), and the name of the partition. (Volume Label). rename it with the name you want, such as the partition we'll fill ubuntu os, so use Ubuntu Linux name, on the "Volume label:" then click "Next".
In the next window click on the "Finish", then Windows 7 will make the process of formatting a new partition that we created, after the completion of the new drive will appear in Windows Explorer or on my computer, with the name of the drive E: (if it was decided to use drive E :), a new partition is ready to insert the new operating system, or to store documents etc..