why is there a partition on my hard drive
You have to partition a hard drive before you can use the drive in Windows. To partition a hard drive basically means to divide it in to parts and make it available to Windows.It's really not at all difficult to partition a hard drive even though it might sound very technical.he specific steps you need to follow to partition a hard drive from the Disk Management tool depend on the version of Windows you're running: 1  How To Partition a Hard Drive in Windows 10 or Windows 8.