Partitioning In Windows 7 Ultimate; Changing The Partitions Under Windows 7 And Windows 10 - Siemens SIMATIC IPC477E PRO Operating Instructions Manual

Maintaining and repairing the device
8.5 Installing the software
8.5.2.2

Partitioning in Windows 7 Ultimate

You will need to reconfigure the partitions after installing a new drive, to repair corrupt
partitions or to change the partitioning.
Partitioning of the HDD or SSD
In delivery state, the following default partitions are set up on the HDD or SSD for the
Windows 7 Ultimate operating system:
Partition
Primary
Second
Third
8.5.2.3

Changing the partitions under Windows 7 and Windows 10

With the disk management, you can adapt the partitioning of your drives.
You can reduce or delete an available partition to acquire unassigned memory space, which
you can use to set up a new partition or to increase an existing partition.
Note
Data lost in the case of deleting a partition!
If you delete a partition, all the data on this partition is lost.
Back up your data before you change partitions.
Requirement
You are logged on as an administrator.
Procedure - Reduce partition
A partition can only be reduced if sufficient space is available.
1. Click with the right mouse button on the partition to be reduced and click on "Reduce size".
2. Follow the instructions.
Procedure - Increase partition
Note
To increase a partition, this partition must not be formatted with a file system or the partition
must be formatted with an "NTFS" file system.
1. Click in the partition manager with the right mouse button on the partition to be increased
and click on "Increase size".
2. Follow the instructions on the screen.
Additional information is available in the "Help" menu under "Help topics" and "Search".
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Name Size of data medium
< 54 GB >54 GB
Boot 100 MB 100 MB
System 40 GB 50 GB
Data Remainder Remainder
File system
>100 GB
100 MB Automatically set up by installation
program
100 GB NTFS not compressed
Remainder NTFS not compressed
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