You may view your hard drive in Disk Management and realize there are unallocated spaces. The space will be on the hard drive, but Windows cannot use it. It is like having a spare room in your house ...
Partitioning your hard drive makes managing the operating system, files, and file formats of each partition easier. For example, you can install Windows 11/10 on one partition and store movies or ...
Using diskpart, I deleted a partition (volume) on a hard drive. That leaves me with C: and unallocated space which was once . <BR><BR>Reinstalling XP does not format the drive and the reinstallation ...