Want to test Windows 10 on your PC? Create a hard drive partition for a worry-free install.

On Windows 10, the easiest way to format a hard drive is using Disk Management, and in this guide, we’ll show you how.

You can partition a hard drive in Windows 10 to create dedicated portions of the hard drive that your computer will recognize separately.

You can partition C drive in Windows 11/10 without formatting using Shrink Volume or Diskpart command line & create a new partition out of it. Learn the procedure here.

Use the partition After the process is complete, a new partition showing the amount of free, or unallocated, space appears next to the Windows C: drive partition.

Windows 10 now allows you to mount physical disks formatted using the Linux ext4 filesystem in the Windows Subsystem for Linux 2.

Ubuntu can format hard drive partitions with the FAT16 file system, used by older operating systems such as Microsoft DOS and Windows 95. Some older devices may also require a hard drive partition ...