Windows can and will crash — and after it does it may not boot normally. To be prepared for worst-case scenarios, learn how to create a bootable recovery partition on your system drive.

You can partition a hard drive in Windows 10 to create dedicated portions of the hard drive that your computer will recognize separately.

This part will show you how to clone HDD to SSD for free or clone SSD to a larger SSD on Windows. Please prepare yourself before you start cloning: Preparation before cloning HDD to SSD 1.

The Disk Management tool of Windows is also available to partition devices. The steps below tell you what you need to do in order to partition a USB drive using Disk Management.

If your new Windows 10 computer takes a long time to boot up, that's likely because it runs on a regular hard drive. This is also the case of most older computers.