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.
Compared with previous Windows operating system, Windows 8 makes a lot of improvements. For example, the traditional Start button is terminated and replaced by Start screen. Through Start screen, users are able to boot apps quickly, view real-time update of news, sports and the latest weather forecast. Users can also customize the content of Start screen, adding their commonly used apps like browser. And all information users care about, weather, websites, contacts for example, can be put to one place. This kind of design style makes user spend lees time looking for apps and information and more time doing what they want to do.
However, Windows 8 Consumer Preview is just a prerelease. It must have some shortcomings that should be improved. For instance, although Windows 8 built-in disk management tool makes improvement, completing the function of Extend Volume, users can not use it to realize some advanced disk management tasks, such as moving partition, merging partitions. If users want to perform this kind of operation, they have to resort to the third-party partition magic.
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 stands out from all 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.
Then we will resize partition for Windows 8 to show the detailed operations of MiniTool Partition Wizard.
Resize partition for Windows 8.
Before resizing partition for Windows 8, we need to visit its official website http://www.resize-partition.com/ to download and install MiniTool Partition Wizard. Then we begin to resize partition for Windows 8. Note: we should not install the partition magic to the partition that will be operated, or we have to restart the operating system, thereby wasting time. 1. Launch MiniTool Partition Wizard. 2. Select the partition that will be resized in the main interface and right click mouse. Then select "Move/Resize" in the popping up menu.
3. Drag the two arrows in the following interface or input exact value in the textbox after "Partition Size". Here, we drag the right arrow rightward to extend partition. After the operation, click "OK" to go back to the main interface.
The operations of resizing partition for Windows 8 are similar to that for other Windows operating systems and they are so simple. The operations of other operation demonstration are so as well. For more information of managing Windows 8 disk partition, please visit its official website.