How to Create Partition Primary, Shrink Volume, delete in hard drive on Windows 10/8/7

A drive is a physical storage device such as a hard disk drive or removable USB flash drive. A partition is an area of the hard disk that can be formatted and assigned a drive letter. A volume refers to a storage area on a partition of a hard disk. The terms partition and volume are often used interchangeably. computers with Windows have hard disk drives with at least two partitions. The C: drive is the main partition for Windows and storing your files. The D: drive is usually for restoring the computer to factory settings.
Your hard drive contains additional partitions which might be visible or hidden. Some of these contain tools and files for troubleshooting or testing hardware issues.

Creating a new partition =
To create a new partition, the hard disk drive must contain unallocated space that is not part of an existing partition. Shrink the volume on an existing drive to create unallocated space, then create and format a new partition, using the following steps.
In Windows, search for and open Create and format hard disk partitions.
Right-click the Windows (C:) drive, or another drive on the computer.

CAUTION:
Do not partition volumes named System Reserved, Recovery, Factory_Image or Do not use these volumes for file storage. Doing so might prevent you from being able to troubleshoot startup issues or perform a recovery in the event your computer encounters a major problem.

Click Shrink Volume… from the drop-down menu to create unallocated space.
The Shrink window opens.

Without making any changes to the settings in the Shrink window, click Shrink.
When the shrink process is complete, the new partition displays in the Disk Management utility as Unallocated space.

Right-click the new partition, then select New Simple Volume… from the drop-down menu.
The New Simple Volume Wizard displays.

Click Next.
The Specify Volume Size window displays.
Click Next to accept the default setting (recommended), or change the value in the Simple volume size in MB field, and then click Next.
The Assign Drive Letter or Path window displays.

Select a drive letter from the drop-down menu, then click Next.
The Format Partition window displays.

To name the drive, type a name in the Volume label field.

NOTE:
Make sure Perform a quick format and Enable file and folder compression are not selected.

Click Next.
The Completing the New Simple Volume Wizard window displays.

Click Finish.

NOTE:
If an AutoPlay window displays, click the X in the top right corner to close it.
The Disk Management utility shows the formatting progress, and then displays the New Volume.

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