Create partition in Windows 11? That is how it works!

If you buy a PC or have it assembled, there is often one or possibly two standard partitions. In most cases this concerns a C and D partition.

If you only have a C drive and no D or you want to create multiple partitions in Windows 11, you can easily do this via disk management.

After creating the partition you will need to create a assign drive letter to the partition. After this, Windows 11 can use it as an additional partition and you can use it to store files.

Create partition in Windows 11

To create a partition open Disk Management. In Disk Management you will see all the drives that Windows has recognized. This is also possible external drives are like a USB or external hard drive.

To create a partition on an existing disk, you must first shrink the disk. Shrinking the drive frees up space. We can then use this space as a partition.

Right-click on the disk you want to shrink part of to use this part as a new partition later. Then click “Reduce volume”.

You now enter how many MB you want to reduce the current disk by. This part is used as a partition. So if you want to create a partition of approximately 100 GB, enter “100000” MB. This depends entirely on how many MB the current disk can be reduced in size at all.

Click “Reduce” to continue.

You will now see an “Unallocated” space created in the drive in question. If you right-click on this unallocated space, click “New Simple Volume” to create a new volume. This is the partition.

The wizard for creating a new simple volume starts. Click “next” to continue.

By default, the size is filled in for the simple volume. If you want to create one partition for this volume, leave the default size entered and click “Next” to continue.

You can now assign a drive letter to the volume. If you want to create a drive path, select this option. You can also mount the volume to an empty NTFS folder. Make your choice and click “next”.

You can now format the partition. If you want to use it in Windows, I recommend keeping the default setting “NTFS”. The default cluster size is also set based on the total size. You can optionally use the volumename change it so that it is recognizable in Windows as an extra partition.

Once you have set the format options, click “next” to continue.

To complete the partition, click “finish” again.

If you now look in “This PC” via the Windows Explorer, you will see the newly created partition here with the assigned drive letter, folder or location.

I hope this helped you. Thank you for reading!

Read more about partitioning:

• Create a partition on a USB stick.
• Enlarge or reduce a partition.
• Create a partition on an external hard drive.