Using Diskpart to Create Partition in Windows 7
1. You will first need to shrink a partition or volume to create a unallocated partition to use to create the new partition or volume with. 2. Open a elevated command prompt , or a command prompt at boot . 3. In the elevated command prompt, type diskpart and press Enter . (See screenshot below) 4. In the elevated command prompt, type list disk and press Enter . (See screenshot below) NOTE: This is to help you ID the disk number that has Free unallocated space that you want to create a new partition with. For example, Disk 1 with 80 GB of free space. 5. In the elevated command prompt, type select disk # and press Enter . (See screenshot below) NOTE: You would substitute # for the disk number listed that you want to create a new partition with the free unallocated space there. For example, I want to create a new partition with the 80 GB of free space, so I would type select disk 2 and press Enter . 6. In the elevated command prompt, type create ...