You may reduce the value if you want to leave room for more future partitions.
The default value for the size parameter reflects the entire allocable space of the volume. In Disk Management, right click on the box signifying the unallocated region of your external drive. To access your new partition, you must first create a new volume from the unallocated space. Your first partition is now ready for use. Once the shrink process is completed, Disk Management will now show two partitions on your external hard drive: An allocated volume with lesser capacity and a new unallocated region of the desired capacity (according to the provided shrink size). Click on Shrink and wait for the process to complete. In the field labeled “ Enter the amount of space to shrink in MB”, enter the amount of space you want to allocate (in MegaBytes) for your private partition. For example, assuming you want to allocate 100 GB for your private partition, enter the value 102400. A new window will pop up for you to provide the parameters for the shrink operation. Right click on it and choose Shrink Volume. 
Select the rectangular box signifying your external hard drive. The external hard drive will be automatically assigned a drive letter will appear in Disk Management as a separate hard drive at the bottom (marked as online). Open Windows Disk Management Utility (Right click on My Computer > Manage > Disk Management Node). The utility will display information about all the disks connected to your computer along with information about disk partitions. 
Connect your external hard drive to your computer.How to partition an external hard drive on Windows So, you can do everything with it that you would do with an internal drive. Your external drive may connect via USB but Windows will detect it as a local hard drive (It will be listed under the Hard Drives section in My Computer). We can use Windows’ own Disk Management tool to create, edit or delete partitions of your external hard drive. By limiting the amount of publicly accessible drive space, you can create a virtual barrier between your personal and shared data. The first step to ensure that your personal data is protected and secure is to have separate volumes for public and private access. You know that your hard drive will be accessed by your friends very frequently. 2.1 How to increase available shrink space.
1.1 How to partition an external hard drive on Windows.
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