You can partition a hard drive in Windows 10 to create dedicated portions of the hard drive that your computer will recognize separately.

Windows can and will crash — and after it does it may not boot normally. To be prepared for worst-case scenarios, learn how to create a bootable recovery partition on your system drive.

Let's take a quick look at a step by step guide detailing how to partition an SSD in Windows using the built in Disk Management tool.

The Disk Management tool of Windows is also available to partition devices. The steps below tell you what you need to do in order to partition a USB drive using Disk Management.