Use Disk Management to easily set up a new hard drive, SSD, or USB stick under Windows.

Let's take a quick look at a step by step guide detailing how to partition an SSD in Windows using the built in Disk Management tool.

How to make Partition Read-only in Windows 11 You can set the read-only attribute to a specific partition of a hard disk. For this, you have to use the same command line utility, Diskpart.

Why bother? The only way to reliably back up your Windows environment is to create an image of your C: drive, along with those small partitions that came with the PC.