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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.

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Resize Partition Windows

  • As of today, Windows personal operating systems cover many editions. But what is baffling is that all built-in Disk Managers on Windows operating systems since Windows 95 to Windows XP fail to offer basic partition management functions, even Resize Partition, the most common function is not covered. Till the emergence of Windows 7, Resize Partition functions is provided on system built-in Disk Manager. Users conversant with Windows 7 built-in Disk Manager know well though we can utilize this tool to extend partition and compress partition, many defects still exist on this built-in tool during partition management. Finally, user will find Windows 7 built-in Disk Manager can not help us resize partition efficiently and reliably and we have to have resort to third-party partition magic such as MiniTool Partition Wizard to finish resizing partition under Windows.

    Windows 7 is inseparable with Partition Magic
    Resize Partition function is added on Windows 7 Disk Manager by Microsoft, which, however, still can not fulfill our daily partition management demands, let alone the innate drawbacks of Windows 7 Disk Manager. The precondition of extending partition with Windows 7 Disk Manager is that an unallocated space must exist behind the target partition. However, in most circumstances, there is no unallocated available between partitions as every partition is next to one or two other partitions tightly. Thus, we need to compress partition to free up an unallocated. But after compression, the unallocated space will only appears behind rather than before the handling partition, which means the unallocated is not 100% adjacent to the target partition to be expanded. If user don wants to expand partition with the unallocated space, the Disk Manager will inform you that the disk is to be converted to dynamic disk after this operation and operating system on this hard disk will be unavailable. Hence, in practical operation, we can hardly resize partition with Windows 7 Disk Manager surely including Disk Managers on other operating system such as Windows XP and Windows 98. This means that we have to turn to MiniTool Partition Wizard partition magic to help resize partition and remedy Windows 7 Built-in Disk Manager inherent defect.

    MiniTool Partition Wizard patches Windows 7 defect in resizing partition
    Through analyzing the whole process of extending partition with Windows 7 Disk Manager, we can learn the essential cause for Windows 7’s failure to extend partition is that the unallocated space after compression can not be moved to the desired location of partition to be extended. In allusion to this situation, MiniTool Partition Wizard formulated an excellent solution, namely, incorporating the Resize Partition and Move Partition to one operation. Meanwhile, the unallocated space used for extending partition is not required to emerge behind the target partition and is allowed to emerge before the target partition. Here, let take a look at how MiniTool Partition Wizard resize partition:



    When no unallocated space is available near the target partition, we should first employ Resize Partition function of MiniTool Partition Wizard to shrink a neighboring partition. The above interface shows the status before the neighboring partition is shrunk and we can see that there is no free space at the two end of this partition. Therefore, we should drag the ends of the arrows at the partition handle to resize this partition.



    After resizing partition, at both ends of the partitions emerges unallocated space and we can capitalize on the unallocated space to extend partition. In actual resizing partition process, user can adjust the size of unallocated space at will.

    Whatever Windows operating system, the built-in Disk Manager is unable to provide us with comprehensive partition management functions to be enough for daily demands though improvement has been made on Windows 7. Hence, we still need MiniTool Partition Wizard to help us resize partition and perform other operations such as create partition, delete partition, etc. For more detailed information on MiniTool Partition Wizard, please logon to the official website http://www.partitionwizard.com.
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