This process does not affect any saved data.ģ. Now, learn how to create, re-size and edit any Windows partition using Disk management software of Windows 10. However, in Windows 10, all the versions including Professional and Enterprise can be used to create a partition of hard disk without formatting or without deleting any data. Whereas, a Windows Ultimate and Professional users can make a use of it. Windows Starter Edition and Home Basic users can perform free hard disk partition up to a certain limit – that mean, if a Windows 7 Starter Edition user has four partitions in the hard disk of his PC, he will be unable to create any additional shrink volume (fifth partition). A Windows XP user can’t perform additional hard disk partition creation without formatting the hard drive so easily. The method was first introduced in Windows XP, then in Windows 7 (Professional, Ultimate and Enterprise editions) and it continues to the later versions.
Windows Disk Management is the free built-in utility of modern Windows versions which performs all the tasks of creating, deleting, re-sizing the hard disk partitions. Shrinking or expanding the hard disk volume and creating a new partition without loosing any data is relatively an easier task using modern Windows OS (like Windows 8.1 and Windows 10).
