Partitioning your hard drive can have numerous benefits. From allowing you to better manage your data by quarantining music and movie files from system files–which in turn will help keep you from losing all your media if you ever need to reformat–to allowing you to install a second operating system on the same drive, there are few reasons to not partition your hard drive. And if you have been having trouble with getting the process to work through Windows itself, using the DOS command prompt is a great way to get the job done. For example, if you would like your new partition to be 11 gigabytes (GB), but need it to be a minimum of 7 GB, you would type “shrink desired=11000 minimum=7000” since 1 gigabyte is equal to 1000 megabytes. Warnings Writer Bio
