How to Partition 1TB Hard Disk in Windows 10/8/7

To partition a 1TB hard disk, do as below, please.

1. 1. Use Windows+R to open «Run», type diskmgmt.В
2. 2. You can right-click a partition which has much free space and select «Shrink Volume».
3. 3. Adjust the partition size and click «Shrink» to confirm.
4. 4. Now, you will get an unallocated space. Read More>>

If you prefer a third-party tool, you can download EaseUS partition manager software.

How to Partition 1TB Hard Disk in Windows 10/8/7

It’s necessary to know how to partition a 1TB hard drive, external HDD, or SSD in Windows 10 into several volumes. For many of us using Windows computers, we typically have two to four hard drive partitions, such as C, D, E & F drive. We use each of them for different purposes. C drive, also known as the system drive, is for Windows OS installation and system files. The rest partitions are usually data partitions, which we may use them to store a specified type of data. The number of partitions doesn’t really matter. It just depends on how many you want on your computer. Partitioning 1TB hard drive in Windows 10 can be done in two ways, either with third-party disk and partition software or Disk Management.

Method 1. Partition a 1TB Hard Disk with a Partition Tool

In consideration of the ease of use, efficiency, and popularity, we decided to recommend EaseUS Partition Master. TheВ free partition managerВ comes with the best solution to partition a 1TB HDD/SSD in Windows 10/8.1/8/7/XP/Vista. What’s more, it has many excellent features:

• Accelerate the performance of SSD with optimized partition alignment
• Extend the C driveВ and run Windows OS faster
• Create a partition to store copies of data
• Clone an entire disk or partition to another without data loss

You’re going to utilize two features of the recommended software to make hard drive partitioning happen.

You can also follow the step-by-step guide to partition a hard disk:

Step 1. Launch EaseUS Partition Master. On the main window, right-click on the unallocated space on your hard drive or external storage device and select «Create».

Step 2. Adjust the partition size, file system, label, etc. for the new partition and click «OK» to continue.

Step 3. Click on the «Execute Operation» button and create a new partition by clicking «Apply».

Watch the following video tutotial and learn how to create a partition in NTFS, FAT, or EXT file system.

Method 2. Partition a 1TB HDD/SSD with Disk Management

Partition a hard disk using disk management is a common method taken by computer users. This Windows built-in tool can satisfy the common demands of most users. In Windows 10/8/7, Vista, and Windows Server 2008, Disk Management can shrink a volume, extend a volume, create volume, delete the volume, format the volume, etc. Follow the steps to partition a 1TB HDD or SSD:

Step 1. Open Disk Management in Windows 10/8/7

Right-click on This PC > Click «Manage» > Enter Device Manager and click «Disk Management».

Step 2. Partition the 1TB HDD/SSD in Windows 10/8/7

To shrink a partition:

1. 1. Right-click on the partition that you want to shrink and select «Shrink Volume».
2. 2. Adjust the partition size and «Shrink» to confirm.

To create a partition:

Once you’ve shrunk a partition, you can use the unallocated space to create another partition.В

1. 1. Right-click the unallocated space and select «New Simple Volume».
2. 2. Click «Next» to continue, set the new partition size, drive letter, file system, click «Finish». Wait for the formatting completes.

In this way, you can partition your 1TB HDD/SSD into several partitions. You can also change your drive letter after the steps.

To change the drive letter:

1. 1. Right-click on the partition and select «Change Drive Letter and Paths».
2. 2. Click «Change» to set a new drive letter for your partition.

Extra Tips — How Many Partitions Are Best for 1TB

Generally speaking, according to the file types and personal habits, a 1TB hard drive can be partitioned into 2-5 partitions. Here we recommend you to partition it into four partitions: Operating system (C drive), Program File(D drive), Personal Data (E drive), and Entertainment (F drive).

C Drive (100GB — 200GB) is the main disk that contains the operating system and the related system files. Therefore, sufficient capacity is essential for the C Drive. Usually, the operating system and related files take up 70GB space. Thus, allocate the hard drive to add about 100GB-200GB of space to C Drive.

D Drive (About 100GB) is the drive for applications. If you install too many programs on C drive, the efficiency and speed of system operation will be reduced. So it is a nice choice to create a separate partition from a 1TB hard drive to store the programs. Generally, 100GB of space for program disk is enough for most people to use.

E Drive (50GB-100GB) is mainly designed for personal files. You can save vital personal files, including office business files, study material, private videos, or photos separately. It is recommended to create a separate partition for those important individual files. Generally, 50GB-100GB of space is enough.

F Drive (600-700GB) is mainly used for entertainment, such as watching movies and listening to music. These files take up lots of space. You can allocate as much space as possible.

Conclusion

It is easy to shrink, create, or extend a partition with a third-party tool or Disk Management. Besides, we have given proper advice on partition number and size for 1TB hard disk. In addition to hard drive partitioning, you can also use the EaseUS disk management tool to merge partitions, migrate OS and convert MBR to GPT or GPT to MBR without losing data.

Partition 1TB Hard Drive Windows 10 FAQs

Is it safe to partition C drive? How long does it take to partition a 1TB hard drive? If you have these kinds of questions, you can read the following questions and answers.

How many partitions are best for 1TB?

1TB hard drive can be partitioned into 2-5 partitions. Here we recommend you to partition it into four partitions: Operating system (C Drive), Program File(D Drive), Personal Data (E Drive), and Entertainment (F Drive).

How long does it take to partition a 1TB hard drive?

About 10 minutes. If your computer is in good situation, you can run EaseUS Partition Master to create, shrink, and extend partitions in a few minutes.

What is the best way to partition a hard drive?

The best way to partition a hard drive:

Step 2. Adjust the new partition size, file system, label, etc.

Step 3. Confirm to create a new partition

How long does it take to format a 1TB hard drive?

For your information, you can always format a hard drive within minutes or half an hour, depending on the hard drive capacity and used space on it. As estimated, to do a full format on a 1TB hard disk in Windows, it will take a long time, like 2- hours, and over a USB 2.0 connection, it may take a day!

Best Partition Size for 1TB Hard Drive in Windows

It is really important to partition hard disks reasonably from my personal experience. A proper partitioning can avoid such problem as space shortage on C drive (system drive) or other drives, which usually happens in later use. What’s more, it can also increase the utilization of the drive and improve the computer performance.

If you want to get ideas for how to partition a 500GB hard drive, please see Best Partition Size of 500GB Hard Disk for Windows 7, 8 and 10.

Recommended partition size for 1TB hard drive or SSD in Windows:

Volume	use	sizes
C	System	150GB
D	Programs	150GB
E	Temp files	150GB
F	Videos & Musics & Photos	350GB
G	software & others	100GB
H	Personal private files	100GB

Attention: In this article, I recommend you to create a partition for temp files. If you don’t want to create that partition, you could allocate more spaces for C partition, such as 200GB.

Why allocate 150GB for C drive?

Comprised files and required space on system drive:

• 1. System files need 10GB-20GB.
• 2. Programs installed on C drive needВ 30GB-50GB. 50GB is recommended.
• 3. Page file: the maximum is 64GB, approximately the computer memory. (It can be moved to other drives.)
• 4. Hibernation files: the maximum is 64GB, approximately the computer memory.
• 5. Temporary Files: About 10 -20GB
• 6. Other storage: 10GB

Based on the above, about 120GB can meet general needs. But out of space is easily caused by a large computer memory such as more than 24GB, or a great many of programs set up on C drive. В If it is 150GB, there will be a relatively surplus space to satisfy the demands of most people.

Tips: I recommend you to move temp files to E drive to avoid too many disk fragments. If you don’t move the temp files and page file to another drive, you should allocate more space for C drive.

D drive for programs – 150GB

All my applications are installed on D drive, thus the space usage of my D drive is about 50G. It is advised that enough space should be left for software that takes a lot of space, for example, a game with dozens of GB.

Why need a 150GB E drive to store temp files?

When tidying and optimizing my computer, an idea occurs to me: to get a separate drive, put all temporary files and page file on it, and then clean it periodically. In this way, frequent deletion will not leave too many disk fragments on your computer, which makes your computer running in good condition. See how to move temp files and page file to another partition.

Tips: If you don’t want to create this partition and move temp files to it, you should allocate more spaces for C drive.

F drive for videos & music – 350GB

From my perspective, we should allocate as much space as possible to save beautiful memories like the current high-definition videos and casual snapshots. Of course, you can also divide several parts as per your own needs to store photos of every family member or of different times.

G drive for software & others – 100GB

It is necessary to allocate some space to store purchased and downloaded software.

H drive for personal private files – 100GB

This is a partition for storing personal privacy data, encrypted with BitLocker and accessed with password, resulting in a high security. Even the computer has multi-user, you do not have to worry about your private data being seen or leaked by others. This is a partition that I highly recommend to you all. See how to setup bitlocker for a drive.

Жесткие диски

Цены на жесткие диски

Название жесткого диска	Цена
WD Blue WD10EZEX 1 ТБ 7200	от 2 719 р.
Seagate BarraCuda Compute ST1000DM010 1 ТБ 64/7200	от 2 520 р.
Toshiba Canvio Basics New 2.5″ HDTB410EK3AA 1 ТБ	от 3 379 р.
Toshiba P300 HDWD110EZSTA 1 ТБ	от 2 649 р.
WD Black Performance Mobile 2.5″ WD10SPSX 1 ТБ	от 3 990 р.

Сегодня перед многими пользователями нередко встаёт вопрос — что выбрать, традиционный жёсткий диск или новомодный SSD-накопитель? На самом деле ответ довольно прост, всё зависит от того, что именно требуется от компьютера. Несомненным достоинством SSD-накопителя является его исключительное быстродействие. Только лишь заменив обычный жёсткий диск на твердотельный накопитель, можно добиться многократного прироста производительности системы, куда более значительного, нежели при обновлении процессора или увеличении объёма оперативной памяти.

Немаловажно и то, что SSD совершенно не боятся встряски, резких движений. Впрочем, последнее актуально больше для ноутбуков, нежели для настольных систем. Да и появление «битых» секторов в результате механических повреждений вовсе не означает, что ваш жёсткий диск обязательно скоро выйдет из строя, он вполне может проработать так ещё несколько лет.

Есть у SSD два весьма серьёзных недостатка — слишком высокая стоимость при малой ёмкости, а также ограниченное количество циклов перезаписи. То есть при схожей стоимости, жёсткий диск позволит записать куда больше информации, чем SSD и способен постоянно прогонять через себя большие объёмы данных.

В качестве примера можно привести такую информацию: компания Intel даёт три года гарантии на свои SSD (которые считаются одними из лучших), при условии, что в день на них будет записываться не более 20 Гб информации, что очень мало по сегодняшним меркам. И если пользователь постоянно работает с большими объёмами видео или регулярно что-то скачивает из Сети, то он рискует значительно сократить продолжительность жизни своих накопителей. А ведь следует помнить, что и сама ОС, и различные приложения постоянно что-то записывают на диск и считывают с него — при активном пользовании компьютера, цифры эти могут быть весьма значительными.

Таким образом, если для вас принципиальна скорость, то обязательно обратите внимание на SSD. Если же важны большие объёмы, то дешевле и практичнее будет сохранить верность традиционным технологиям.

Идеальным может стать гибридный вариант, когда используются одновременно SSD и жёсткий диск — на первый устанавливается операционная система и ПО, а второй используется для хранения данных. Такой подход позволит значительно повысить производительность, не потеряв при этом в объёме. Вот только возможно подобное не всегда, например, в ноутбуке обычно невозможно установить сразу два накопителя. Можно попробовать поставить жёсткий диск на место оптического привода (если, конечно же, таковой вообще имеется у вашего ноутбука), применив для этого специальный адаптер-переходник. Но следует помнить, что такое решение неизбежно скажется на времени работы ноутбука от аккумуляторной батареи.