You can partition C drive in Windows 11/10 without formatting using Shrink Volume or Diskpart command line & create a new partition out of it. Learn the procedure here.

The Read-only attribute protects data stored on Hard Disk. This article shows how to make disk or disk partition read-only in Windows 11/10.

You can partition a hard drive with Windows' Disk Management utility by shrinking the existing partition and formatting the new unallocated partition.

It can be tricky to manage disk partitions in Windows. Perhaps you want to boot two operating systems simultaneously, or maybe you don't want to reinstall Windows when partitioning a hard disk.

Before you can partition a hard drive in Windows, you must have installed a new unused hard disk, deleted an existing partition, or have some unpartitioned space available on an existing drive.

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.