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.

6. Follow the instructions in the New Simple Volume wizard to create the partition. This will allow you to set the partition's size, and to select the letter it will be assigned.

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.