Your 221GB of allocated space is your single partition on the drive (it is already partitioned, formatted, part of it is currently used for your installed operating system, programs and data, and there is nothing you need to do). Or you could have 3 primary partitions and and extended partition that could contain several dynamic volumes.For a clearer picture, you could try following the steps provided in next tutorial:īy default, if you do not alter the drive properties during the installation process (when it is asking where it should install Windows), it allocates all of your drive space in one large partition. Keep in mind, that on windows based systems you could have a maximum of 4 primary partitions regardless of how many harddrives you have installed.

Make sure to format that partition with NTFS file system. To create a partition on this space, you would have to click on unalocated space, right click on it and select create partition. Once that existing partition is shrunk, you would see unallocated space showing in disk management. If you want to create more partitions, you would need to open the disk management tool and first you would have to shrink the existing partition. What is the size of your harddrive? If you just installed 7 on it, chances are you used the whole space of the disk to create a partition for your operating system.

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