To make the fullest use of the disk space, you had better create several partitions for different purposes. Thus, you need a partition manager for Windows 7 to better manage your disk partition and optimize disk space usage without data loss.
To manage disk partition in Windows 7 64 bit and 32 bit, you can first try Windows 7 built-in partition tool- Disk Management. It can help you do some basic disk management such as creating volume, deleting volume, formating volume, changing drive letter, setting active partition and more.
Part 1. To open Windows 7 Disk Management, there are 3 ways you can try:. In the Window 7 Disk Management, you'll see all connected hard disks with detailed partition information type, file system, status, capacity, free space..
Part 2. What Windows 7 built-in partition manager can do for you? Download it and you'll see the main window with 5 blocks. Real disk partition won't be modified until you click Apply to confirm. This free partition manager has unique 1 Second Rollback and Cancel-at-well technologies to ensure system and data intact. To avoid mistake, all operations are working in virtual mode before applying to real disk partition.
The unique 1 Second Rollback technology work internally, it creates snapshot of the disk partitions after starting, and monitors the whole process of partition resizing, moving, etc. If any software error or hardware issue such as power outage occur, it automatically roll back the computer to original status in a flash. If you want to extend partition C by using Diskpart, then you should first of all check out whether there is some unallocated space following the C drive Note only unallocated space can be used to extend primary partition.
If YES, then do the followings:. At this time, you should delete the partition to make sure that there is continuous unallocated space following the primary partition to be extended and free space for logical partition. After that, repeat the above operations. For more information, please refer to Virtual Disk Service Error. However, by using Command Prompt, things are quite different. Please read on. Besides, CMD supports the use of scripts to automate its usage.
Cons : CMD is not easy to use for average users. Without a clean interface, data loss happens often if a wrong partition is chosen. However, Disk Management is relatively dull and often fails a job when there is something different. Guess many of you have such an experience: when trying to extend partition, sometimes " Extend Volume " is activated, but sometimes it is disabled, not knowing why.
If you want to extend partition using Disk Management, you should click on the partition you intend to increase capacity and choose "Extend Volume" from the context menu, then follow the extend wizard to complete this task. However, most of the time, you will find that Extend Volume is grayed out, just like showing below:. Theoretically speaking, Extend Volume will grey out if one of the following conditions is not true:. Besides, sometimes "Extend Volume" will lead to a basic disk to become dynamic disk.
Actually, this happens on data drive. If the unallocated space is not following the target partition, while another drive is dynamic disk, extending volume will lead to a dynamic disk. Move the slider bar to left or right to determine the size of unallocated disk space. Step 3. There is an unallocated to next to F after finishing the previous step.
Right-click the unallocated space and choose Create Partition. Step 4. More Properties can be set through clicking Advanced. Then Click OK after deciding all the above. Step 5. Click Apply and Proceed to commit the operation.
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