Resize Partition under Windows Operating System

Windows is the first operating environment introduced by Microsoft in November 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS. As we all know, it is a series of Operating System and soon plays a dominant role in the computer market worldwide. There is a convincing testimony that at the 2004 IDC Directions conference, it is stated that Windows had approximately 90% of the client Operating System market.

Recently, Microsoft has released a latest version named Windows Vista. Compared with the other Operating Systems in Windows family, Vista contains a new feature which allows users to resize partition without any additional software. Previously, resizing partition is only available by using additional resize partition software.

In consideration that most of the people still do not know how to resize partition in vista. We would like to give you some directions as follows:

1) Click on the Start menu

2) Right click on Computer and click on Manage

3) You may get a User Account Control dialog here; just click Continue

4) In the left pane, open up the Storage category and click on Disk Management

5) Here, you will find your partitions on your disks. Right click on the partition you'd like to modify and it turns out a box

6) Click on Shrink Volume or Extend Volume and you will see a dialog box as bellow

7). In this dialog box, you can choose the exact amount of space you want to shrink. Just select your settings and click the Shrink button and resizing partition has been finished.

Just as we stated before, only vista has such kind of built-in function to resize partition. How about the other Windows Operating Systems like Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003/2008 and Windows XP? You can just rely on partition software as we indicated before. Here we recommend EASEUS Partition Master Server Edition.

You may download it from http://www.easeus.com/download.htm or some other famous download websites, such as download, softpedia, tucows, etc. Suppose you have installed it and want to resize partition D:, here we go with the following steps:

1. Launch the software and select partition D:

2. Click the Menu Partitions > Resize / Move

3. Position the mouse pointer on the left or right of partition D:

4. You can drag the handle to the partition size you want when it changes into a double-headed arrow. Just click the Apply bottom and partition D: has been resized

EASEUS Partition Master Server Edition works perfectly with hardware RAID and Windows Server 2000/2003/2008 and Non-Server 2000/XP/Vista/Windows 7 (32 and 64) bit systems.

If you are home user, the freeware EASEUS Partition Master Home Edition is the best choice to resize partition which supports Windows 2000/XP/Vista (32 bit) Operating Systems.

For better data security, you may also use the free backup software software - EASEUS Todo Backup, which will help you a lot. It provides easy-to-use interface to backup and restore your system, disk and partition within minutes.

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