Repartition a hard drive is very necessary for most PC users. Nowadays many posts show you how to repartition a hard drive Windows 10 as Windows 10 is very popular. Mac soft ochre dupe.

But there are some users who still stay with Windows 8 don’t know how to repartition a hard drive. This post shows you how to repartition a hard drive Windows 8 by using Windows built-in tool Disk Management and a free partition assistant MiniTool Partition Wizard, helping you manage partitions on your hard drive in an effortless way. 'I have bought a DELL Inspiron N5520 15.6' laptop (Windows 8 64-bit OS). I have only 1 drive in it (i.e. Only C Drive). I want to know how to split the hard drive into more partitions. Further I want to install Linux and Win 7 on the drive other than C: (because i want to use some software which are not running on windows 8).'

--By anujvarshney from Tomshardware Although Windows 10 has been released for a period of time, there are still a large number of computer users sticking to Windows 8. When partitioning a hard drive for the first time, many fresh hands just partition it to one partition or partition at random. Another possibility is that the computer is bought with only one partition on the disk, just as the situation anujvarshney encountered. Simply one partition will bring users a lot of inconvenience and troubles, or even make after a period of time.

In addition, partitioning randomly may generate the situation where a certain partition runs out of space. Often at this time, Windows 8 users might be wondering: can I partition a drive with data on it? How to repartition a hard drive Windows 8 without formatting? About Repartition Hard Drive. 'Disk partitioning is the division of a computer hard disk or other secondary storage into one or more regions. Many computers have hard disk drives with only a single partition but others have multiple partitions so that an operating system can manage information in each region separately.' --From Wikipedia Repartitioning hard disk contains lots of operations, like, deleting partition, formatting partition, extending partition, shrinking partition, splitting partition, and merging partition.

Some are basic functions and the others are advanced ones. Generally, basic functions as mentioned before are available in Windows built-in partition tool Disk Management, but if you want to, wipe partition, and use some other advanced operations, you need the assistance of MiniTool Partition Wizard. How to Repartition a Hard Drive Windows 8 with Disk Management To perform basic partitioning like creating more partitions, users like anujvarshney just need to make use of system built-in Disk Management tool. They can shrink the volume first and then create volume on the unallocated space.