Create, Resize, Split, Move, Format, and Merge partitions

In this tutorial, you'll learn how to setup a new HDD using AOMEI's Partition Assistant Home Edition. You'll learn how to Create, Resize, Split, Move, Format, and Merge partitions. The software is available at http://www.extend-partition.com/free-partition-manager.html

Minimum requirements:

500 MHz x86 or compatible CPU
256MB RAM memory
Mouse and Keyboard

Partition Assistant supports all the storage devices recognized by Windows, such as IDE, SATA, SCSI, SSD, USB external disks, Firewire disk, Hardware RAID, Flash drive, and so on. It supports MBR (under 2TB) and GPT (larger than 2TB) up to 32 hard disks, with file system FAT, FAT32, NTFS, EXT2, EXT3 formats.

It supports different versions of Windows depending on the software edition. In general, it works on Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7/8, Small Business Server 2003/2008/2011, Windows home server 2011, and Windows Server 2003/2008/2012 (both 32bit and 64bit).

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Closed Caption:

hello
and welcome to another episode yes
repair
playing host mister fix it and this
video
I'm ownership help you set up a brand
new hard-rock
now brand new hard drive have nothing on
what so ever and they need to be
condition or set up so the operating
system
use it to do this
it you could do several thanks but
first we meet initialized this
to do so you need to select
disc using the software ALOM
EDI I partition assistant home addition
this is a software that bring here and
you could do all kinds of things
southwire as you've seen other
tutorial that I've done for the software
now
I'm gonna try and squeeze in some stuff
that we could do
how we're going to set a the hard drive
at the bottom
worker disc 4 I have it highlighted as
green
and this is the drought we're gonna be
working with
now when you buy a brand new drive
you have a choice either install it as a
secondary drive
if your computer or laptop have the room
or you can use it to
upgrade your old hard drive to your new
Hard Rock
now you do need to have
the drive initialize which I will show
you here
%ah to you this drive
make sure the driver go to use it
highlighted in this case is disc for
you'll notice over here that you'll see
initial I
desk appear
under desk you click on a menu you also
noticed that its
initialized desk now
if you don't see it here or if it's if
you come up here and it's great now
that means it did his already
initialized
and no further action needed to be taken
you can also right-click the drive as a
date here
and again you'll see initialized desk
now this case and need to set the desk
so that operating system use it all he
had to do
click initialize desk now
when this the menu the window comes up
it wants to know what kind of
%ah disc you're going to use
now if you're going to use it when does
they you need to use MBR
in fact most what we're gonna do here
deals with the
MBR if known as the master boo
record GPT
is for driving are larger than to
para by and it also for
different operating system but windows
cannot use GPT
as you can see here
you could choose but by default were
gonna use
Mb are master mu record what you hear
make sure selected and then choose OK
now
notice over here they said in this life
disc 4
in the pending operations now
below or click apply now
you don't have to do each function
separately
you can have it on them accumulate the
ball the operation you want done
where the drive and
then you can apply and it wont do all
the perks
operations in order now you see here is
gonna
Anna initialize the desk
the site at the desk and the style that
is going to use which is MBR
here to bottom is commercially
approximation of how much time it will
take
in this case it says about approximately
30 seconds or more
then you proceed attitude yes
and they want it completely
your disc is ready to use
it has campaigned a a
Master Boot Record on the drama
now make want your disc is initialized
you'll notice that back up here if you
click on desk
it's greyed out you can no longer do
again you'll see that you can no longer
do it
that means a diff internationalize and
it's ready for use
now if you're going to migrate or
upgrade your sis your computer
from old hard drive to your new hard
drive
you're gonna need a migrating operating
system
if that's your case then you need to
watch the migrating to the
operating system tutorial
which I will provide a link for
and it will automatically be the rest
now if you're going to use this drive
like I'm using my secondary drive here
this is my second drive it physical
ground not a partition that the physical
dry discovered to
a this is where a store all day later
videos pictures
anything and then lo for day you know
this is where a store at all
I am keep backups on this drive
well if you're K you're gonna you this
drop as
storage then
let me show you several things you can't
do
first we need to create a partition
you click apart up here under partition
operations
and you can choose part create partition
you can also go and right-click the
drive
you'll notice you can do other things to
it
long go under properties
and it will give you all the information
about the drive
now if you kick right click their
partition here this section here you get
a
a a set menu of all the things that you
could do
to the partition now here
the only thing we can do right now is
create one
now here comes the fun part
you can use either the
whole drive as one partition
or you could buy month first
let's go ahead and do it like this let
we're going to use this whole drive
as the one single partition
get the sinus the letter
or a big assigned the filing system it
were you
and here walk like advanced
I'm gonna name it
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energies okay
again you do you have your partition
that here
are you operations pending so
may go at you reply she's per se
yes now you can have multiple
operations but under show you and
reminding you
what for anything takes cries
you have to choose apply okay no it is
OK
now we have our primary are partition
on desk four now
another thing that you can do with these
is
you can split a partition for example
let's say you want to divide this setup
and put a smaller part
tension on their re: come over here
under partition operation and select
partisanship
now
you can also right-click partition
an 100 certainly you you can also choose
split partition now
this wall divide the partition
equally by the fall however
you can't change it you could see
this sign and you can see this side and
as you can tell from reading the
sciences it split and hair
now you can adjust as to what side gets
what
you can nader justice sign
worry can move it over to this Sun
and as you noticed the ratio between the
two partitions
have adjusted so if he'd
if you're still having the into the
number that here
you could just grab this dot and slide
it wherever you want now under Advanced
this is for a
solid state drives which I don't have
one
but it will align the partitioned
to you bystolic state dropped that what
you decide
where you want a partition and how I you
wonders splitter
she's OK now this is the afterword
what's gonna take place now
we no longer have one partition we have
to and this is what what would look like
when you have splitted partition and
remember you get your operations here
come up here to supply what your
approval and then
your shoulder approximation how long it
will take
and inches per se
and there you have it now it complete
now
another thing you can do is you can also
resize and move partitions
now we're gonna resize this one and let
were or shrink guess what and same
some so hard drives a Ford a gigabyte
well I get that back air
at close buying gonna be too picky so
I'm gonna resize it now I have all this
space right here
that's going to be black now at what I
want to do
is I'm going to move
the partition
now this is the whole section that or
partition took place
and now I can move it if I shrink it
at a movie knows how the
dunno spaces numbers change
this is unallocated space before
to partition which is this
a thing in front on it
is unallocated space before the
partition
and this it and make a space
after the partition so far move this
right here
the islamic 27
and a half gigabytes
in this section which is before the
partition
and economy 26 points 3 gigabytes in
this
partition after the are in this section
after the partition now
advance is same thing it will allow you
to optimize the performance for solid
state drive are you doing a solid state
drive
sure that is checked now
we could choose OK and there we go
now
axion create this one create this one
have four partitions on a single drop
and now more that their now
you have the a three-part primaries
with a tall girl I'll and you have one
logical
primary partition main
that that partition will boot up
operating system
or AR operating system logical
such as this one here highlighted cannot
build a system
taken only stored data nothing else
now we also have
on my operations
now the operations here you see a half
three different banks
now I could you supply
gave you my list have everything is
going to do
go take approximately
fifteen-minute and I could choose
percy accuse yes
once the process is good play
just click OK and now you have
for individual partitions
on your hard drive and that is how you
can read a
resize and remove and
create new partitions not keep in mind
you can only provide
for partitioned her
dry you have three primary
and you can have one logical and nothing
else
now let
say you have two partitions that you
want
murdered you can do so by using the
merge partition function
under partition operations that you
could select
did this get we're gonna work for
workers 4
a you could choose which partitions is
gonna merch
now it will only emerge to its a
partitioned into a bigger one or
it will merge unallocated disk based to
a partition
so the only two adjacent
or shows here is I and G so of like
ING now the merge
the above selected partition to the
target partition
now
you can choose either which partition
march to the
other partition you can either merge
II 2g orgy to on
now what we're gonna do is
were gonna emerge the partitioned to G
so will flick G and then choose okay
now will
give you a warning that all data in the
I partition
will be merged into the drive
G partition now
choose OK and there you go
this is work going to look like
you will have a little spot
in between on
this is to allow it to merge it gives it
the room
that the system requires in order to
move data
so don't be alarmed if that's what you
see
now again you had depending operation
work you to apply ok take about 30
seconds
and there were queues proceed
and click yes
now georg process finishes
he's OK and now
when it's completed no remember the law
spot that with him between like seven
megabucks
it's gone now and now you have to first
to partitions a murdered
into one single
partition and that is all you need to do
when you want to merge
to partition together now
another thing you can do is you can
format
partition for instance
will go to this one over here could it's
the smallest
an week right click
which contains the same fountains as
these over here
now we want to use format
now
format set up the partition
plus to give you it a
more control as to how you want it for
format it
type then for is prepared lol for
label where are you NTFS
gave your choice work twenty-one years
a now
the cluster size want this means
is each cluster that data is written
re-air block or
cost urs now normally the clock the
cluster grand for
kilobyte that the fall
now you can choose anywhere between
512 by or
.5 kilobyte or you can choose up to 64
now you can use the fall
some cases I use 512 bytes which is .5
kilobyte
a it doesn't matter what you use
i'd mostly pertains to
wasted disk space which I'll
deal with that another video and that's
all you need to do
what you decide you're part Asian liable
the filing system you use
closer far Closter size
which is the fall a
now it has warned you that formatting
the partition will destroy all the data
in the partition she's OK
and there you'll see
house completed now
we do have the pending operation click
Apply
here we go
now give you the format partition
the drive letter going to following
format:
the new label driver
why it says drive letter I have no idea
I think it's the a glitch and the
software
but it should say cluster side
white shirt said and al Qaeda size
at the partition that it's gonna format
and they're here take care you
approximately how long it will take
which says 30 seconds or more click
Proceed
that too yes
and it is OK and now you're
drive this format and ready to go
now when you create these partitions it
automatically
done for you but the format partition
I give you more control as to the
cluster size
basically that's what it what it's for I
have
other things you can do is a.m.
you can the leak
partition which I showed you how to do
that
in another video are you could copy
depart
partitions I'll show you how to create
them
showed you had to split on had a mergem
and had to resize them and that
if basically all there is to do set up
your brand new Hard Rock
Acura migrate your operating system
there's no need to do this you don't
need a anything else
other than to migrate your operating
system what to do have a tutorial with
us of course
show you how it's done and it's very
simple to do
well I'm your host
mister fix it thank you for watching