How To Partition Hard Drive Disk Without Wiping All Data

Oct 16, 2011

How I could partition my internal hdd without wiping all data from it, and then sharing the partitioned drive within my home network. Also, I was wondering how I could tell what drive letters are already assigned to my laptop's usb ports.

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