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It is only possible to do this if you create a secondary partition (which counts as one of the 3 partitions you can create on a HDD), and create multiple partitions within that. Probably best done in Disk management within windows.

I am wondering what you'd need these partitions for, Generally I tend to just split a HDD in half so that anything that would get better performance from being on the first half of the drive will stay there and anything that doesn't need performance (videos, downloads, music etc.) can be put at the end.
 
ok thanks so you mean 1 should create 2 partitions only 500gb each and what in in disk management what is extend and shrink partition and what is this secondary partition and what is logical drive
 
A physical drive is a single hard disk

a logical drive can appear to windows as a single drive but might just be one of many partitions on a single Physical drive.

A Physical drive can have up to 3 Primary partitions. In order to get more you need to create a secondary partition which counts as one of the 3 primary partitions.

In Disk Management:

Shrink partition makes the partition size smaller. You obviously can't make it smaller than the amount of data that is already on the drive.

Extend will increase the partition size, so long as you have the necessary free space to do so.

To create a secondary partition you will need some free space on the disk, in the create partition dialogue it gives you the option to make a partition primary or secondary. if you chose secondary and don't use up all the free space you can create additional secondary partitions until all the free spaces are used up.

How are you planning to use these partitions?
 
thank you and i am just using for gaming not any professional work and could u plz tell me if 1 make only 2 partitions will it speed up hdd thanks and i got yesterday 1 seagate hdd and 1 wd external now when i am copying 107gb data from external to internal hdd its slowing my pc really. normal?
 
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due to the way the clusters are arranged, 99% of the time HDD's can read data a lot faster when it is located at the beginning of the drive than it would at the back of the drive. Sometimes the very beginning is twice as fast the very end. (someone once told me there are drives that are the opposite but I've never seen one)

If I had a single HDD then I might let windows have it's own partition (50GB for Win7 x64) then let programs and games have the next partition and then all my data files that don't need performance at the end.

It is possible with a little registry editing to have windows install every program onto the 2nd partition automatically, go to post 11 of this [URL="http://forums.bit-tech.net/showthread.php?t=198549]page[/URL] and follow the steps.

It may be easier to just have windows and programs in the same partition.

The other advantage to keeping programs and Data separate is that the disk heads won't have to travel as far if files are fragmented or split over different ends of the drive, decreasing latency and making the system more responsive.

Ideally you would have an SSD for the windows drive and at least 1 hard drive split in 2 for programs and documents. With SSD's the performance is the same right across the drive.
 
If you don't have any music or films or other documents you might as well, It would probably be less complicated if everything was on one drive but if you are happy following the guide then you would get some benefit by keeping OS files at the beginning.
 
Yeah that would be better. How big is your hard drive overall and how big would the first partition be if you shrank it?
 
actually brother the thing is i deleted shrinked extended several times within windows i think i should reinstall windows instead of doing this again n again i delete drive cant extend drive its very messy cant understand i think i will make only three drives during windows installation
 
Deders said:
A physical drive is a single hard disk

a logical drive can appear to windows as a single drive but might just be one of many partitions on a single Physical drive.

A Physical drive can have up to 3 Primary partitions. In order to get more you need to create a secondary partition which counts as one of the 3 primary partitions.

In Disk Management:

Shrink partition makes the partition size smaller. You obviously can't make it smaller than the amount of data that is already on the drive.

Extend will increase the partition size, so long as you have the necessary free space to do so.

To create a secondary partition you will need some free space on the disk, in the create partition dialogue it gives you the option to make a partition primary or secondary. if you chose secondary and don't use up all the free space you can create additional secondary partitions until all the free spaces are used up.

How are you planning to use these partitions?
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Actually you can create FOUR primary partitions on a hard drive.

To create logical partitions you first of all have to create an extended partition (which is a special kind of primary partition), and this is where I think you got the notion that you could only create three primary partitions, in which you can create as many logical partitions as you like up to the limit of your drive letters (or you can create even more if you mount the partitions in an empty folder in another drive).
 
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Nec_V20 said:
Actually you can create FOUR primary partitions on on hard drive.

To create logical partitions you first of all have to create an extended partition (which is a special kind of primary partition), and this is where I think you got the notion that you could only create three primary partitions, in which you can create as many logical partitions as you like up to the limit of your drive letters (or you can create even more if you mount the partitions in an empty folder in another drive).
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dont understand lol
 
the whole PC slows down? Is via USB? usb 1, 2 or 3?

Perhaps you need to get motherboard drivers.
 
If you are copying data, especially if it over a fast connection that allows the disk to work at it's full speed then it leaves little room for other programs to use the disk. SSD's are much better at handling multiple requests.
 
Yeah they seem fine, although the main disk should have plenty of headroom as it's about twice as fast as the external, so you shouldn't get as m,uch slowdown. Probably worth getting the drivers. What motherboard do you have?

Also seems like there is a lot going on in the background which will cause the massive drops you are getting. Maybe the indexing service?
 
thanks what is this index service and i have asus p8b75m-lx motherboard and i have installed all drivers:audio intel management engine intel usb 3.0 extensible host controller intel inf intel rapid storage driver all updated
 
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