How to partition Solid state drive

How to partition a solid-state drive? With the popularity of solid-state hard drives, many computer users now use solid-state drives or upgraded SSD, the following article to detail the new purchase of the SSD How to partition, this article to 240G new solid-state hard disk partition tutorial demo, the method is as follows.

Solid-state hard disk partitions and mechanical hard disk similar, need to use some tools, here Small series using the start of a U disk PE tool with the Diskgen tool, teach you how to new SSD partitions.

First, the solid-state hard disk installed to the computer, and then ready to start a U disk, and then the launch of the U disk into the computer, set the boot into the U disk startup, and then enter the PE tool interface, and then click on Open "Partition tool Diskgen" as shown.

PE interface Diskgen Partition tool

Second, open the Diskgen partition tool interface, first on the left to find solid state hard disk, and click to select, as shown in the picture.

Click to select SSD solid-state drives that need to be partitioned

Third, then click on the Diskgen tool menu "hard disk", in the Drop-down menu, click "Fast Partition", as shown in the picture.

Quick partition

Four, in the zoning operation interface, first selected divided into several areas, 240GB SSD, because the capacity is not large, recommended 3-4 areas can be. Small knitting here selected 4 districts, then also need in the advanced settings, adjust the size of each partition, the general first system C disk, partition capacity recommended greater than 50GB, due to the small set to install WIN10, so give C disk divided 60GB, the other 3 partitions, each partition about 50 GB, Click "OK" at the bottom when you are done.

An illustration of SSD partition operation

Note: solid-state hard disk must pay attention to the 3 callout position in the figure "aligned partition to this sector of the integer times", this is the SSD often mentioned 4K alignment, must be checked, and the other back of the value selected as 2048 sectors. SSD does not have 4K alignment and can affect performance.

Five, in the last click to determine, the Diskgen tool will be required to the SSD partition, after completion, will automatically format the hard disk, waiting to complete, the SSD will be divided into a good area, as shown in the following figure.

Solid State Hard Drive partition complete

The above is a new 240GB solid-state hard disk partition tutorial, generally speaking, SSD and ordinary mechanical hard disk partitioning method is basically, just solid state hard disk partitions need to pay special attention to 4K alignment; another need to note that the C disk because to install the system, need to give C disk reserve a larger space, Recommendation 50GB above, specific size, the proposal is based on SSD capacity to choose. After the solid state drive is well divided, the system can be installed.