Changes

To begin the partitioning process right click on the Unallocated or Free Space area of the appropriate drive in the graphical section of Drive Manager screen and select ''New Simple Volume...''. This will launch the ''New Simple Volume Wizard''. Click Next on the initial screen to proceed to the ''Specify Volume Size'' screen as illustrated below:

[[Image:windows_server_2008_set_volume_size.jpg|Windows Server 2008 R2 New Simple Volume Wizard - Setting volume size]]

Click the Next button to proceed to the Format Partition screen. On this screen two choices are available in terms of the type of file system to be created on the new volume, namely FAT, FAT32 and NTFS. FAT file systems are limited to 4GB in size and a maximum file size limit of 2GB. FAT32 file systems have a maximum volume size of 32GB with a file size limit of 4GB. NTFS volumes can be up to 2TB on an MBR disk and 18 Exabytes (EB) on GPT disks. NTFS is recommended unless FAT32 is specifically required. FAT32, for example, does not support many of the file system security or compression features inherent in NTFS. In addition, the disk management tools can be used to shrink the size of NTFS partitions, but not FAT or FAT32 partitions.

[[Image:windows_server_2008_volume_format.jpg|Setting the file system format options in Windows Server 2008]]