Create Hard Drive Partitions in Windows 10

Create Hard Drive Partitions in Windows 10

Windows 10 Virtual Machine with minimum 100GB hard disk. 

Note: Do not try this practical on the local Computer.

Each user might have his or her own opinion on which one is the worst but sure we all consider to be the worst is losing all files after the whole system is corrupted by a strong malware or virus or corrupted disk. 

Microsoft actually created tools for protecting, they are called the System Recovery and System Image/Backup and Restore tools

Yes! In order to fully take advantage of these tools, you will need to at least be able to create one drive partition which will serve as the storage for your backup or system image files

In this tutorial we are going to create one hard drive partition in your Windows 10 machine. 

First of all we are going to see various ways to access the Disk management tool. You can pick the easiest one for you later on. 

1. Launching Disk Management from the Admin/WinX Menu

In order to open this tool, all you need to do is press the Windows + X keys and the tool will appear instantly on the bottom-right portion of your computer screen as you can see being shown below Or you can right click at the start/Windows icon.

2.    Disk Management from the Control Panel

You can go to control panel  System and Security  Administrative Tools  Computer Management  Disk Management 

3.    Disk Management from the Universal Settings App

Press the Windows + I keys and the Settings app Window should open. In the search box type “disk management” and shortly you will see “Create and format hard disk partitions”

Now let’s see how to create Hard Disk partition

To start, you will first need to know the drive letter of your machine’s hard drive. It is designated as Drive C: if you haven’t changed the drive letter and if you only have a single partition where the operating system is installed.

You will need to look into the bottom portion where the label “Disk 0” is found

After finding drive (C:), all you need to do is right-click on it in order to access a contextual menu which shows the different options that you can do to the drive. Since we are trying to create a new hard drive partition, what we’ll need to click in the option that says “Shrink Volume” as shown below.

After entering the space desired for the hard disk partition that will be created, you can now click on the button that says “Shrink” 

We can see the newly created Disk Partition but it’s not allocated with any portions table and identification

Formatting the Unallocated Space

Now that you’ve successfully separated a total of 100 GB from the existing drive (Drive C:) you will now need to format it so it will appear as a new partition

• Right-click on the unallocated space shown in the Disk Management 
• Click on “New Simple Volume…” 

Click Next and in the new simple Volume Wizard enter the volume size 

Assign a Drive Letter 

Now in the format partition menu select the file system, Default is NTSF , You can change the Volume Label to appear in My computer 

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Windows Server 2012 R2 is Stuck on "Updating Your System"

 

I had few Windows Server 2012 R2 to update. When I  was checking for updates, there were over 49 updates on one of the backup server, Most of them "Critical Update". So i had to update them and done so. Once all the updated  installed system forced me to restart. it was almost early morning 4am so i pushed the restart and went to bed. Morning since it was my backup server, non critical checked the systems and what i saw was surprising. Systems had a message " Updating your system (4%). Almost 6 hours it was at 4% and i realised its not going to work, unfortunately i didn't have any checkpoint to roll back too. 

After some google search i found an interesting step by step guide for workaround, Thank god it worked. 

Hera are the work around which worked for me. 

I have a Hyper-V environment. 

1) Turn off VM.

2) Adjust Autostart Settings (set a 5-second delay). - If not already done.

3) Power on VM in Safe Mode. Press F8 while booting the operating system. 

4) Choose "Troubleshoot" then "Command Prompt"

5) Enter the password for a local administrator account.

6) Next,  run the following command to see the list of all available drives:

     wmic logicaldisk get name

7) Next, we need to navigate to the C:\Windows\WinSxS

     cd Windows\Winsxs

8) Next, we need to list all files beginning with "Pending".

     dir pending*

9) Next, we need to rename all "Pending" files to append "_old" 

     ren Pending.xml Pending_old.xml

10) Next, we need to create a new blank "Pending.xml" file

     echo > pending.xml

11) Next, we need to navigate to the C:\Windows directory

    cd..

12) Next, we need to create a new directory within Windows called "scratch"

    mkdir scratch

13) Next, we need to run a DISM command to remove/revert all

   DISM /Image:C:\ /Cleanup-Image /RevertPendingActions /scratchdir:C:\Windows\Scratch

14) Next, we need to rename the "SoftwareDistribution" folder to "SoftwareDistributionOLD".

   ren C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution C:\Windows\SoftwareDistributionOLD

15) Next, we need to run a system file checker tool 

    sfc /scannow

16) Lastly, we need to restart the VM

Network Drive Mapping using GPO and Bat files

Its very common practise in large organisations to map the shared folders using GPO. It can save time for the administrator to go to each computer and map them one by one. 

Lets see how we can do the mapping here.. 

You need a domain controller and a client computer connected to domain ( member) 

In my case i have created two OUs and each OUs has two users. I am going to create mapping to all the users. To do this..

1) need to have shared folders

2) Need a Bat file and save under  sysvol folder 

 C:\Windows\SYSVOL\sysvol\YOUR_DOMAIN_NAME\Script

3) need a GPO

Save the 

Step 1) sharing a folder : 

Create a new folder ,--> Right Click --> Property --> sharing on the top 2nd tab. 

Add who needs to be given permission to read and write in this folder.. remove others except Administrator. 

Step 2) Need a Bat file.

Open the Notepad and save it as .bat ( make sure no .txt is attached with the file extension) 

if you are not sure how to save as .bat file ( read here )

@echo off

net use S: \Delete

net use S: \\server\data

net use P: \\server\Print

You can add as many as shared folders with the command net use S: \\server\data,  make sure to change the drive letter and File path. 

save this file under 

 C:\Windows\SYSVOL\sysvol\YOUR_DOMAIN_NAME\Script

Go to your Group policy manager and create a new policy under the specific OU in group policy manager and edit that. 

Option 2: 

Under user configuration --> Preference --> Windows Setting --> Drive maps --> right click --> new --> mapped Drive. 

Specify the location \\servername\path.

select a Drive Letter to show when mapped. 

Thanks all you login to client PC and you should be able to see the map Drive. 

Change file extension ( .txt to .bat)

If you are wondering how to change a file extension follow these steps. 

First make sure you have the Hide file extension is deselected. 

One is deselected you can see the file extension 

Right click on the new text document.txt and rename. when you rename make sure to remove .txt and change it to .bat

Click yes. thats all the file is change to .bat extension now.