Hard Drive Formatting Guide
Partition a volume under Windows
®
OS
1.
Right-click on the Computer icon (Windows 7) and select Manage from the drop-down
window. If you are using Windows 8.1, press the Windows key and X key on your
keyboard at the same time and select Computer Management. From the Computer
Management window select Disk Management under Storage to start this process.
2.
Right-click on the “Unallocated” space and select “New Simple Volume”.
If this option is not available, the disk was not initialized. You must initialize the disk
first before you can continue. Please stop here and go to the section on “
Initialize a
Disk
” to initialize the disk before return to this section on “
Partition a volume under
Windows OS
”.