How to resize partition? I believe many computer users are facing such a problem because all current operating systems we use bears innate defect in disk management. Let take Windows XP, the operating system taking up high market occupancy, for example. Windows XP built-in disk management tool is born with tremendous shortcoming all the time and can not meet out disk management demands such as resize partition, merge partitions, hide partition and wipe partition, etc, resulting in user’s difficulty in resizing partition. Then, how can we resize partition? In fact, it is extremely simple for us to successfully resize partition as long as we acquire a third-party partition magic, such as MiniTool Partition Wizard which covers a "Move/Resize Partition" to help us resize partition easily.
Main functions realized by "Move/Resize Partition"
"Move/Resize Partition" module can generally realize the following three functions:
1. Expand partition or extend partition
2. Move partition
3. Shrink partition or compress partition
All these are common functions in daily hard disk management, which optimize hard disk space distribution and computer overall performance.
The whole process of extending partition with MiniTool Partition Wizard
First, download MiniTool Partition Wizard at the official website http://www.partitionwizard.com/ and then install it to partition where operation is not to be executed, then run this partition to meet following interface:
This is the main interface of MiniTool Partition Wizard from which we can notice D: is almost a full partition and F: possess a lot of free space. Therefore, I am to first shrink partition F: and then extend partition D:. So, select F: and then click "Move/Resize" at the toolbar to enter next step.
In this step, I am to shrink partition F: by inputting accurate value in textboxes below or dragging the left-oriented triangle rightwards at the partition handle. After setting, click "OK".
In this interface, we can see F: has been shrunk and an unallocated space appears between D: and F:. Now, I am to expand D: with this unallocated space. Click D: and select "Move/Resize" at toolbar.
Extend partition in this interface like what we have done in resizing F:. Click "OK" after setting.
Now, we can see unallocated space has been distributed to D:. However, this is just a preview effect and we should last click "Apply" at top left corner to execute all pending operations listed at the lower left corner.
How do you feel? Isn’t it extremely simple to resize partition with MiniTool Partition Wizard? As a matter of fact, MiniTool Partition Wizard still offers many powerful yet useful partition management functions such as "Merge Partition", "Copy Partition" and "Wipe Partition" apart from resizing partition. What’s more, such a powerful partition magic is totally free for personal and family users.