Partition a hard drive with Windows 8/8.1

Partition a hard drive with Windows 8/8.1 

Disk Management is a built-in tool of Windows 8 or 8.1. It is able to shrink volume, extend partition, create partition, format partition. But the limitation of this tool is that you are only allowed to extend a partition to contiguous unallocated space on the right side, otherwise, "Extend Volume" option will be grayed out. The following will take "shrink a partition and create a partition" for example.

• Open Windows 8 or 8.1 Disk Management by pressing "Windows + R" and typing "diskmgmt.msc". 

• Right click "volume E" enter the amount of space to shrink.

• Click "Shrink" and we can get an unallocated space. 
• Right click on it and select "New Simple Volume". 
• we can partition a new volume in Windows 8 or 8.1 by following the guidance.