It can be tricky to manage disk partitions in Windows. Perhaps you want to boot two operating systems simultaneously, or maybe you don't want to reinstall Windows when partitioning a hard disk.

The Read-only attribute protects data stored on Hard Disk. This article shows how to make disk or disk partition read-only in Windows 11/10.

You can partition a hard drive with Windows' Disk Management utility by shrinking the existing partition and formatting the new unallocated partition.

Windows can and will crash — and after it does it may not boot normally. To be prepared for worst-case scenarios, learn how to create a bootable recovery partition on your system drive.

We offer step-by-step tutorials on how to clone your hard drive or a single drive partition.

The Disk Management tool of Windows is also available to partition devices. The steps below tell you what you need to do in order to partition a USB drive using Disk Management.

After deletion, the space becomes unallocated, and you can create a new partition using Disk Management. Deleting a recovery partition doesn't harm Windows, but safely store a backup before doing it.