MiniTool Partition Wizard Server
- Convert NTFS to FAT.
- Copy Dynamic disk volume.
- GPT Disk and MBR Disk interconversion.
- Copy UEFI boot disk.
- Convert GPT-style Dynamic Disk to Basic.
- Move Boot/System volume for Dynamic Disk.
Expand partition for Windows 8
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On the morning of 29th, Feb, Microsoft held press conference in Barcelona and announced the next generation operating system Windows 8 Consumer Preview and offered the download address. It is a beta edition that is close to the official edition and consumers can download it and try its properties freely.
Until now, Windows 8 Consumer Preview has been released for a few days and got a lot of attention since its release. It can be considered as the groundbreaking product of Microsoft to some extent. Compared with the traditional Windows operating systems, it makes many great improvements.
1. It supports AFM framework.
This news was announced at CES 2011 at the beginning of this year.
2. Brand new Metro interface.
We could say that this change is the most intuitive and significant in Windows 8. In the Start screen which takes the place of Start button, various kinds of apps appear in the form of tiles show, which is convenient to touch. And every tile is dynamic and able to provide real-time information like weather forecast.
3. Windows Store
Windows 8 Consumer Preview starts Windows Store and all apps in the store are free for now.
Those above are only some of its new features. Besides, the built-in disk management tool is perfected to a certain extent. Despite the improvement, it still disappoints users and users can not use it to perform some advanced disk management operations. If users want to resize partition freely, change cluster size, merge partitions and realize some other advanced operations, they have to resort to the third-party partition magic which they are more familiar with and conditioned to.
At present, most of the third-party partition magic is able to realize all functions of Windows built-in disk management tool. Besides, users can use the partition magic to resize partition, move partition, merge partition and perform other operations that can not be achieved by windows built-in disk management tool. And MiniTool Partition Wizard can be considered as the best partition magic, with which users can resize partition without damaging data, change cluster size and so on. In addition, MiniTool Partition Wizard has high compatibility, supporting all common Windows operating systems including Windows 2000 Server, Windows XP/Vista, Windows Server 2003/2008, Windows 7 and the latest Windows 8.
How to expand partition for Windows 8?
However, lack of partition space may occur in Windows 8 sometime. At this time, the solution is to expand partition for Windows 8. Two methods are available: using the built-in disk management and applying MiniTool Partition Wizard. But we suggest the second one because the operations are much simpler.
After downloading MiniTool Partition Wizard from and installing it to Windows 8 operating system, launch the partition magic to expand partition for Windows 8. Its starting interface will be shown.
All disks and partitions are shown. Select the partition which will be expanded and right click mouse. Then click "Move/Resize" option in the menu popping up (there must be unallocated space adjacent to the target partition; if not, please first of all use Move/Resize function to get the essential unallocated space). And the following interface will be shown.
Drag the right triangle rightward or input exact value to expand partition. After that, click "OK" to go back to the main interface.
We can see from the starting interface that the selected partition has been expanded. If the result of expanding partition for Windows 8 is expected, please click "Apply" to perform the operation.
Through so simple operations, we have finished expanding partition for Windows 8, from which we can see MiniTool Partition Wizard is so powerful. If you also want to merge partitions, convert file system, change cluster size or realize other disk management operations, please visit http://www.resize-partition.com/ to download the partition magic and there are more operation demonstrations provided.
