Windows 7 is the most popular operating system, which inherits all advantages of Windows XP and Windows Vista. Besides, it makes many innovations and changes. All these make users get better experience. When users enjoy high level experience, they may meet many troubles. For example, system partition may be out of space because of installing more and more programs, which will lead to computers’ slow operating efficiency. All these problems are resulted from poor disk partitioning. In fact, every operating system may generate this kind of problem. At this time, users should resize partition under Windows 7 or repartition to solve this problem. Repartitioning will bring with data in system great consequence and cost users a large amount of time. So, the best way is to resize partition of Windows 7. The difference between former Windows operating systems and Windows 7 is that Windows 7 built-in disk administrator is improved a lot. The added functions of extending volume and compressing volume can help users resize partition of Windows 7 in theory, but there exist many limitations which make users difficult to operate system partition. How to resize partition of Windows 7 well? I suggest using the professional third-party partition magic MiniTool Partition Wizard.
Disk management expert - MiniTool Partition Wizard
MiniTool Partition Wizard is multifunctional partition magic released by MiniTool Solution Ltd.. It can not only help users resize partition of Windows 7 perfectly, but also help users build partitions, delete partitions, merge partitions, format partitions, wipe partition data and so on. Besides, all these operations are easy to understand. MiniTool Partition Wizard also supports various operating systems and storage devices. It can perform disk managements on different storage devices, such as US flash disk, external hard drive, memory card, and under almost all operating systems, such as Windows 2000 and Windows 7. The most important factor is that such a perfect partition magic is wholly free for individual and home users. Please visit its official website http://www.partitionwizard.com/ to learn details.
Resize partition under Windows 7 with MiniTool Partition Wizard
Be sure you have owned this software before using it. If not, please visit its official website to download it and then install it on the very partition where we do not do any operation. After accomplishing installing, we run it to meet the following main interface:
The main interface lists out all partitions in our computers. If we want to expand system partition of Windows 7, we must get unallocated space at first. Here, we shrink partition D: to get unallocated space, and then expand C: partition with this unallocated space.
So, we should select D: to perform resizing partition. And this software offers us four methods to enter "Move/Resize Partition" interface:
The first one: click "Move/Resize Partition" function button in action panel directly to enter partition resizing interface.
The second one: click "Move/Resize" button above the list.
The third one: click "Move/Resize" in "Partition" menu on the top of the interface.
The fourth one: right-click the very partition needed to resize following a popup menu, and then click "Move/Resize".
Please choose any method to enter partition resizing interface.
In this interface, we can set partition size and partition starting location. The software offers us two methods: The first one is to input values in input box. The second one is to drag the triangles on both ends of the partition handle marked by red box to change the length of partition handle so as to resize partition. This interface provides us with data protection function which can help users avoid data loss caused by improper adjustments. Please check the marquee if there is no special requirement. After accomplishing setting, we click "OK" to shrink D: partition. At this time, the shrunk space will become the unallocated space. We expand C: partition with the unallocated space. The operations to expand partitionC: are almost as same as shrinking partitionD:, just expanding C: when we resizing. After finishing operations, we can see the unallocated space is distributed into C: partition. However, all these are just previews. If users want to accomplish the system expansion of windows 7 authentically, please click "Apply" function button to perform all former operations. After all operations are performed, we will accomplish resizing partitions of Windows 7.
All these are operations to resize system partition of Windows 7 with MiniTool Partition Wizard. It is so easy to perform these operations. Besides, this software offers text instructions during the whole process, which can reduce data damages resulted from operating mistakenly. Hurry to download MiniTool Partition Wizard to expand system partition for your operating system.