How to partition the SSD With all the important prerequisites out of the way, let's see how to partition an SSD. This process works for both Windows 10 and 11 PCs.

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

This means that sometimes, if your SSD was formatted by something other than Windows' installer, it can be aligned incorrectly and will transfer data much slower than intended.