Note that these settings may be changed at any time by right clicking on the volume in graphical view and selecting Change Drive Letter and Paths from the popup menu. The wizard also provides the option to leave the new volume unassigned at this point. Alternatively, to have the volume mounted in an empty folder use the Browse button to locate or create a suitable empty folder on the file system via which the new volume will be accessible. If this is not acceptable however, select another drive letter from the drop down list. By default, the wizard will allocate the next available drive letter to the new volume. Once the size has been defined, click Next to configure the drive letter or mount point. If you only need one partition, use the maximum amount available.
The screen shows the maximum and minimum allowed sizes. On this screen enter the size of the volume to be created. Click Next on the initial screen to proceed to the Specify Volume Size screen as illustrated below: This will launch the New Simple Volume Wizard.
To begin the partitioning process right click on the Unallocated or Free Space area of the appropriate drive in the graphical section of Drive Manager screen and select New Simple Volume. Any available space left in the extended partition after the first logical drive has been created will be marked as Free Space and may be used to create additional logical drives within the extended partition. The fourth partition created will be configured as an extended partition within which the first logical drive will be created to match the size requested for the fourth volume. When creating new volumes on an MBR disk the first three volumes created will be configured as primary partitions. Alternatively, launch Computer Management from Start -> All Programs -> Administration Tools -> Computer Management or run compmgmt.csc. To launch the Server Manager, open the Start menu and click on the Server Manager option, or click on the Server Manager icon in the task bar. New volumes are created using the Disk Manager which may be accessed either from the Server Manager or Computer Management tools or from the command prompt using the diskpart tool (covered in the next section). The extended partition can, in turn, be divided into one or more logical drives. As described in Adding New GPT and MBR Disks to Windows Server 2008 R2 Systems, a basic disk initialized with the MBR partition style can support either four primary partitions or three primary partitions and one extended partition.
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