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Disks and Data

Managing Disks and Volumes

Disk Management

Disk Managment How To…

Manage Basic Volumes

View the properties of a volume

Assign, change, or remove a drive letter

Create a mounted drive

Mark a partition as active (32-bit only)

Format a basic volume

Create a partition or logical drive

Delete a partition or logical drive

Extend a basic volume

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Create a partition or logical drive

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Updated: January 21, 2005

Applies To: Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2003 with SP1,
Windows Server 2003 with SP2

To create a partition or logical drive

Using the Windows interface

Using a command line

Using the Windows interface

Open Computer Management (Local).

In the console tree, click Computer Management (Local), click Storage, and then click Disk
Management.

Right-click an unallocated region of a basic disk, and then click New Partition, or right-click free
space in an extended partition, and then click New Logical Drive.

In the New Partition wizard, click Next, click Primary partition, Extended partition, or Logical
drive, and then follow the instructions on your screen.

Notes

To perform this procedure on a local computer, you must be a member of the Backup Operators
group or Administrators group on the local computer, or you must have been delegated the
appropriate authority. To perform this procedure remotely, you must be a member of the Backup
Operators group or Administrators group on the remote computer. If the computer is joined to a
domain, members of the Domain Admins group might be able to perform this procedure. As a security
best practice, consider using Run as to perform this procedure. For more information, see Default
local groups, Default groups, and Using Run as.

To open Computer Management, click Start, click Control Panel, double-click Administrative
Tools, and then double-click Computer Management.

You can create primary partitions, extended partitions, and logical drives only on basic disks. You
should create basic volumes instead of dynamic volumes if this computer also runs MS-DOS,
Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows NT 4.0, or Windows XP Home
Edition.

On a master boot record (MBR) disk, you can create up y to four primary partitions, or three
primary partitions, one extended partition, and unlimited logical drives.

On a GUID partition table (GPT) disk, you can create up to 128 primary partitions.
Using a command line

Open Command Prompt.

Type:

diskpart

At the DISKPART prompt, type:

list disk

Make note of the disk number of the disk on which you want to create a primary or extended
partition.

At the DISKPART prompt, type:

select diskn

Select the disk n where you want to create the primary or extended partition.

At the DISKPART prompt, type one of the following:

create partition primary [size=n] [offset=n] [ID=byte | GUID] [noerr]

 or

create partition extended [size=n] [offset=n] [noerr]

or

create partition logical [size=n] [offset=n] [noerr]

At the DISKPART prompt, type:

assign letter=D

Value Description

list disk

Displays a list of disks and information about them, such as their size, amount of available free space,
whether the disk is a basic or dynamic disk, and whether the disk uses the master boot record (MBR)
or GUID partition table (GPT) partition style. The disk marked with an asterisk (*) has focus.

select disk

Selects the specified disk, where n is the disk number, and gives it focus.
create partition primary

Creates a primary partition on the current basic disk. After you create the partition, the focus
automatically shifts to the new partition. The partition does not receive a drive letter; you must use the
assign command to assign a drive letter to the partition.

create partition extended

Creates an extended partition on the current drive. After the partition has been created, the focus
automatically shifts to the new partition. Only one extended partition can be created per disk. This
command fails if you attempt to create an extended partition within another extended partition. You
must create an extended partition before you can create logical drives.

create partition logical

Creates a logical drive in the extended partition. After the partition has been created, the focus
automatically shifts to the new logical drive.

size= n

The size of the partition in megabytes (MB). If no size is given, the partition continues until there is no
more unallocated space in the current region. The size is cylinder snapped; the size is rounded to the
closest cylinder boundary. For example, if you specify a size of 500 MB, the partition would be
rounded up to 504 MB.

offset= n

The byte offset at which to create the partition. If no offset is given, the partition will start at the
beginning of the first free space on the disk. For master boot record (MBR) disks, the offset is
cylinder snapped; the offset is rounded to the closest cylinder boundary. For example, if you specify
an offset that is 27 MB and the cylinder size is 8 MB, the offset is rounded to the 24 MB boundary.

ID= byte | GUID

Intended for Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) use only.

Caution

Creating partitions with this parameter might cause your computer to crash or be unable to start up.
Unless you are an OEM or an IT professional experienced with GPT disks, do not create partitions on
GPT disks using the ID=byte | GUID parameter. Instead, always use the create partition efi command
to create EFI System partitions, the create partition msr command to create Microsoft Reserved
partitions, and the create partition primary command (without the ID=byte | GUID parameter) to
create primary partitions on GPT disks.

For MBR disks, you can specify a partition type byte for the partition. If no partition type byte is
specified on an MBR disk, the create partition primary command creates a partition of type 0x6. Any
partition type byte can be specified with the ID=byte | GUID parameter. DiskPart does not check the
partition type byte for validity, nor does it perform any other checking of the ID parameter.

For GPT disks you can specify a partition type GUID for the partition you want to create:

EFI System partition: c12a7328-f81f-11d2-ba4b-00a0c93ec93b

Microsoft reserved partition: e3c9e316-0b5c-4db8-817d-f92df00215ae

Basic data partition: ebd0a0a2-b9e5-4433-87c0-68b6b72699c7

 LDM Metadata partition on a dynamic disk: 5808c8aa-7e8f-42e0-85d2-e1e90434cfb3

LDM Data partition on a dynamic disk: af9b60a0-1431-4f62-bc68-3311714a69ad

If no partition type GUID is specified, the create partition primary command creates a basic data
partition. Any partition type can be specified with the ID=byte | GUID parameter. DiskPart does not
check the partition GUID for validity, nor does it perform any other checking of the ID parameter.

noerr

For scripting only. When an error is encountered, specifies that DiskPart continues to process
commands as if the error did not occur. Without the noerr parameter, an error causes DiskPart to exit
with an error code.

assign letter=D

Assigns a drive letter, D, to the volume with focus. If no drive letter or mount point is specified, the
next available drive letter is assigned. If the drive letter or mount point is already in use, an error is
generated.

Notes

To perform this procedure on a local computer, you must be a member of the Backup Operators
group, Administrators group, or you must have been delegated the appropriate authority. If the
computer is joined to a domain, members of the Domain Admins group might be able to perform this
procedure. As a security best practice, consider using Run as to perform this procedure. For more
information, see Default local groups, Default groups, and Using Run as.
 To open a command prompt, click Start, point to All programs, point to Accessories, and then
click Command prompt.

You can create primary partitions, extended partitions, and logical drives only on basic disks. You
should create basic volumes instead of dynamic volumes if this computer also runs MS-DOS,
Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows NT 4.0, or Windows XP Home
Edition.

On a master boot record (MBR) disk, you can create up to four primary partitions, or three
primary partitions, one extended partition, and unlimited logical drives.

On a GUID partition table (GPT) disk, you can create up to 128 primary partitions, but no
extended partitions or logical drives.

You cannot create partitions on removable media using DiskPart.

For more information about DiskPart, see Related Topics.

Information about functional differences

Your server might function differently based on the version and edition of the operating system that
is installed, your account permissions, and your menu settings. For more information, see Viewing
Help on the Web.

See Also

Concepts

Change a basic disk into a dynamic disk

Create a mounted drive

Format a basic volume

Assign, change, or remove a drive letter

Delete a partition or logical drive

Create a partition or logical drive

Mark a partition as active (32-bit only)

Partition styles

Working with MMC console files

DiskPart

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can not see the new partition I made

I can not see the new partition I made in my computer

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Create new partitions

Download MiniTool Partition Wizard and install it:

 First select the segment of free space you would like to create a partition on by clicking on an
Unallocated space in the main interface. Then there are three ways to initiate the Create Partition
function.

1. Click Partitions in the top menu » click Create

2. Click Create in the Tool Bar
3. Click Create partition under the group Partition Operations on the Action panel

Partition Wizard supports file systems FAT12, FAT16, FAT32 and NTFS.

After initiating the function, a dialog box will appear and you will decide on the following
parameters:

a. Main partition/logical partition.

b. Drive letter.

c. Type of file system.

d. Cluster Size.

e. Volume label of the partition.

f. We recommend using the NTFS file system, as it is much more reliable and stable than FAT. For
the Cluster Size, we recommend selecting default.

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