MULTIPLE DRIVE CREATION

Creating multiple drives is a helpful strategy to improve overall speed of a computer. Most of the time computers come equipped with an OS and a single drive. But creating multiple drives in a system will improve efficiency of virtual memory and paging. Also it helps in the classification of drives and efficient defragmentation.

Creation of multiple drives can be done using following method.

1. Click start button
2. Type ‘Computer Management’.
3. On the search results select the same.
4. In the ‘Computer Management’ window, Select ‘Disk Management’.
5. Select the single drive.
6. Right click on the drive and select ‘Shrink Volume’.
7. On the windows opened, select the size of new drive to be formed.
8. Click on Shrink.
9. Now you will be able to see a newly unformatted drive.
10. Right click on the drive and select ‘New Simple Volume’.
11. Click next after choosing the needed size.
12. On the Assign Drive Letter or Path page, specify whether you want to assign a drive letter or path and then click Next.
13. Use the Format Partition page to determine whether and how the volume should be formatted. If you want to format the volume, choose ‘Format This Volume’. Be sure to check ‘Perform a quick format’. Click next.
14. Click Finish.

 Congratulations, now a new partition is created.