Managing Hard Drives and creating new volumes

Right click on the My Computer icon on the desktop, or click the Start Button and right click on Computer.  Then select Manage from the menu.  A UAC box will pop up, so click yes.  This is what you get.

 

As you can see, I had no space to create a new volume.  So I had to shrink one of the current volumes, I chose the C: volume.  To do so just right click on the desired drive, and select Shrink Volume from the menu.  Again, this is what you get.

 

Notice it asks for the amount of space to shrink the drive by.  Oh, and its in megabytes, not gigabytes!  Once you think you have what you need, hit the shrink button.  Next, I created a new volume by again, you guessed it, right clicking on the desired free space, its typically black, and selecting New Simple Volume.  This brings up a configuration wizard that walks you through what filing system you want to use, how big the drive should be, what letter to assign to the new drive, etc.  Once you are done, this is what the results would look like.