This page tells you how to partition USB drive in Windows 7/8/10/11/XP/Vista with EaseUS free USB partition manager. Try it to repartition a USB drive or resize a USB drive partition with ease.
Download the magic USB partition tool so you can easily manage a USB HDD, pendrive, flash drive like this:
As a matter of fact, the USB partition manager we're going to introduce to you in the next part is so feature-rich that it enables you to fully control your USB flash drive and USB external hard drive without doubt.
As the price of USB hard drive is falling continuously and demand for more hard disk storage is growing, people now tend to buy a USB hard drive for convenience, but how to manage a new USB drive or solve the most common problems occurred to the USB drive?
To optimize the performance of your USB hard drive, a third-party USB partition manager is needed. EaseUS Partition Master Free Edition, a freeware to manage partition, works as a powerful and magic partition software. With this partition freeware, you could enjoy a wonderful experience of managing your partition like magic, such as Resizing, Copying, Merging, Creating, Deleting partitions and so on. Especially you can extend the NTFS system partition and Dynamic Disk Copy.
This USB partition freeware works perfectly with all Windows OS. Moreover, with a user-friendly interface, you can partition your USB hard drive with very simple operations. So no matter you are a computer expert or not, you can partition a USB hard drive easily. The most shining point of this freeware is that your data is completely protected during the process of partitioning your USB hard drive.
Besides partition, the hard drive is also good at managing disk pace, EaseUS Partition Master - the unique free partition manager has Partition Recovery Wizard to recover deleted or lost partitions. Copying disk and Copying partition in this toolkit is useful if you want to copy or replace disks.
To partition a USB stick or USB HDD with EaseUS Partition Master, you can start at once after connecting the drive to your Windows computer or laptop. It's so user-friendly that you don't have to learn the basics in advance.
Now follow the USB partitioning guide and do it yourself to partition a USB drive:
Step 1. Launch EaseUS Partition Master to check for free space at the Partition Manager section.
Step 2. Shrink a disk partition to create unallocated space.
Right-click on the target drive partition with a lot free space and select "Resize/Move".
Drag either end of the partition rightwards or leftwards to shrink the partition size so as to get ample unallocated space. You can visually know how much space you've decreased in the "Partition size" area. Click "OK".
Click "Execute xx Task" and then "Apply" to save all the changes.
Go back to Partition Manager, there should be unallocated space appearing on the same disk and you can continue with the next step to create new partition on your hard drive.
Step 3. Create a new partition with unallocated space on the target hard drive.
Right-click on the unallocated space and choose "Create".
Customize the partition size, partition drive letter, partition label, file system (NTFS, FAT32, EXT2/3/4, exFAT) and more in the Advanced Settings. Click "OK".
Finally, click "Execute * Task" and "Apply" to complete creating partition with the unallocated space on your disk. Repeat the steps to partition a hard drive and get many more partitions.
Sometimes, there is something wrong with the Windows boot drive and you cannot start the Windows as normal. How to access the non-bootable Windows computer and fix the hard drive issues at this moment? You need to use EaseUS partition magic software, which is an upgraded version, to create a bootable USB drive that can help you enter the computer without booting into Windows.
How to make the EaseUS bootable USB drive? Follow the simple steps:
Step 1. To create a bootable disk of EaseUS Partition Master, you should prepare a storage media, like a USB drive, flash drive or a CD/DVD disc. Then, correctly connect the drive to your computer.
Step 2. Launch EaseUS Partition Master, and find the "Bootable Media" feature on the left. Click on it.
Step 3. You can choose the USB or CD/DVD when the drive is available. However, if you do not have a storage device at hand, you can also save the ISO file to a local drive, and later burn it to a storage media. Once made the option, click the "Create" button to begin.
Step 4. When the process finishes, you'll see a pop up window, asking if you want to restart computer from the bootable USB.
Note: To use the bootable disk on a new PC, you need to resart the target computer and press F2/F8/Del key to enter BIOS, and set the USB bootable disk as the first boot disk.
Wait patitiently and your computer will automatically boot up from the USB bootable media and enter EaseUS WinPE desktop.
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