How the hard disk is partitioned

New installed computer because the hard disk is a new hard disk, so the partition format does not need to worry about data security, for hard disk partitions, there are the following commonly used hard disk partitioning tools: PartitionMagic, Diskgen, software, easy to operate. New computer is no system, so need System or U disk system, its internal with PartitionMagic, Diskgen and other hard disk partition software, so the focus is to prepare U Disk System or disc system disk.

If you purchase a system CD-ROM, the system CD-ROM with PE tools, the interior contains a variety of hard disk partitioning tools; If you need to make your own U-disk system, then you need to download PE tools to u disk.

Download the tool, you need to make it into a U disk system or burn into a CD-ROM system, here it is recommended to make a U disk system, if it is the optical disk system you can buy their own system disk, that is, others have done.

With a CD-ROM system or a U disk system, you can then put the U disk or CD into the computer.

The first step: need to set up the computer's boot sequence, then need to enter the BIOS, the optical drive as the first boot device. There are generally several ways to adjust the boot order now the motherboard manufacturers in order to facilitate the user to use, the adjustment of the starting order to set up shortcuts, in the Computer boot display screen when holding down shortcut keys can be adjusted, the specific shortcut keys, different motherboards will have different settings, just follow the screen prompts to operate.

After entering the PartitionMagic hard disk partition tool, you can partition the hard disk, but before you partition the hard disk, you must think about a problem. For the hard disk partition first to understand that the C disk is generally used as a system disk, other disk to do storage disk. and C Disk system must reserve more space, because C disk space too small, will affect system performance. General partitions are based on the operating system used, and if Windows XP is still in use, the recommended space for the operating system is 10GB.

If you are using Windows 7, it is advisable to 30gb-50gb the remaining capacity for personal data storage and software installation. This is what we often call the C-plate. Then, D set the words recommended for use as software and games installation directory, such as e disk, F disk specific how to distribute according to the wishes of their own allocation that is, due to the current hard disk generally reached more than 500G, so the general C disk reserved 100G comparison recommended. In addition, the general hard disk is best to create 3-6 letter can be easier to classify storage data.

Next together to introduce how to hard disk partitioning, first of all look at the end has been divided into areas of the effect:

When you are partitioning the hard disk, you need to know that the C disk you created is a boot partition (also known as the primary partition), and then the D disk, and so on, are collectively called extended partitions, and a single disk such as D disk or E disk is referred to as a logical partition.

After understanding the above hierarchical relationship, you can start the hard disk partition, first create the primary partition (that is, the system disk (c)).

The second step: Select the hard drive on the left, then find the new section in the top menu, or directly on the hard disk capacity icon, select New Partition, first choose the primary partition, the following figure:

As shown in the figure above, the primary partition created is the creation system (c disk), and the size of the capacity to create the C disk in the new size. Generally based on the hard capacity of the C disk to create a reasonable size, C-disk system recommended to stay at least 50G (if the hard disk capacity is very small, the proposed distribution of 30G above).

Step three: After selecting the main partition capacity, click OK: Enter the following interface, select the hard disk partition format:

It is recommended that you use the NTFS hard disk partitioning format, because the format is the best for individual users, regardless of size or security.

Fourth step: After completing the above steps, select the remaining capacity portion of the hard disk to create an extended partition, as in the following figure:

Step Fifth: After creating the extended partition, select the extended partition, and then create the logical partitions within the extended partition, as shown in the following figure:

Because you can include multiple logical partitions within an extended partition, you can create multiple logical partitions to focus on allocating each logical partition's capacity.

Step Sixth: You need to set the primary partition as the active partition, which is essential, the C disk must be set to the active partition, or the installation system may not be able to enter the system, set the primary partition (C disk) as the active partition method as follows:

After all these steps are complete, the hard drive partitions are done. , here again for you to explain the above related nouns, deepen the understanding of rookie friends. The primary partition that is created is our system disk, usually the C disk (which must be set to the active disk). The extended partition created is the general designation of all disks except C disk, such as D disk, e disk, etc. called logical disks.