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Step 1:

• With the volume attached, open ‘disk management’ from the control panel. Upon being attached to a running instance, it only takes a moment for the volume to dynamically appear in this menu.

  

  
  
  

• The volume is connected but is currently offline.

  Right clicking the box which contains the name of the opens a drop down menu that contains a button to turn on the disk.

• Turn on the disk.

  

  
  
  

Step 2:

• Right click the same box from earlier to open the dropdown menu, this time click on initialize disk to create a new partition table.

  

  
  
  

• The initialize disk menu will appear, select GPT from the radio button list (to learn more about GPT please visit https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/dn640535(v=vs.85).aspx ) and push okay to create the new partition table.

  

  
  
  

Step 3:

• Right click the wider box that shows the unallocated disk space and select new simple volume to open the partition creation wizard.

  

  
  
  

• Click next to continue.

  

  
  
  

• If a single partition is being created in this volume, the default volume size is the 100% of the available space.

• If there will be more than one partition, enter the size of the current partition in the simple volume size in MB.

• Clicking next opens the menu where a drive letter for this partition can be selected from the dropdown menu.

• The partition can also be mounted in an empty folder, or without any path.

  

  
  
  

• Clicking next opens the format partition menu.

• Here there are options to change the file system from NTFS to ReFS FAT32, change the allocation unit size from default, and assigning the volume a name.

• There are also check boxes for a quick format and folder compression.

• Clicking next opens the details of what has been selected, review the chosen settings for accuracy and then click finish to create the partition.

  

  
  
  

• The created partition will now appear in windows file explorer.