How to Resize Boot Partition with ease?

What is Boot Partition?

The boot partition is the disk partition that contains the Windows operating system files and its support files. Generally, it is on the same partition as system partition: C drive. It is the most important part of hard disk with system and programs installed in it.

Working as the head of a human, boot partition will influence the performance of your computer to a large degree, especially the running speed. Thus how to optimize the boot partition for quick response?

Choosing a Partition Freeware to Resize Boot Partition

From above, we can get that boot partition is critical for our computer, so how to manage it is an important task for computer users. Maybe the first thing you come into mind is the built-in Disk Management if you are Vista users. But as we know, it is not an easy task for common users, not mention the speed of resizing boot partition or any advance functions. Therefore, a third party application is needed for resizing boot partition.

Among hundreds of thousands of partition software, to choose a reliable partition freeware is not an easy case. However, EASEUS Partition Master as a comprehensive partition freeware deserves your trust. EASEUS Partition Master Home Edition is a trustable partition freeware for resizing, copying, creating, deleting, formatting partitions, etc. This freeware works perfectly with hardware RAID and Windows 2000/XP/Vista/Windows 7 Operating Systems. And the most shining point is that it can resize and move boot partition without any data loss. You do not need to worry about your data will be lost during the process of resizing boot partition. And if you are still afraid of data loss because of unexpected affairs, the partition & disk copy can be used to backup your data and ensure it is 100% the same as the originals.

For better data security, you may also use the free backup 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.

How to Resize Boot Partition with this Partition Freeware?

Here a real case is available for you to know more about resizing boot partition with EASEUS Partition Master Home Edition.

A user has an 80 Gigabytes hard drive with three partitions. One day he found that the boot partition C: drive is out of place. Meanwhile, the partitions are fighting for the precious space with each other and running slowly. So the key point for him is to increase boot partition size. He used the Windows built-in Disk Manager but failed. Then he gave a try for EASEUS Partition Master Home Edition to resize his boot partition. With the help of this reliable partition freeware, he resized his boot partition successfully. Below are the detailed operations of resizing boot partition by this partition freeware:

1. Select the hard disk partition to be resized.

2. Click Partitions > Resize / Move.

3. On the disk map, current size of the partition is displayed on the top of the dialog box. The map also depicts the used and unused space within the partition and the free space surrounding the partition (if any exists). The minimum and maximum sizes that you can resize a partition appear below the map.

4. Position the mouse pointer on the left or right partition handle.

5. The mouse pointer changes to a double-headed arrow.

6. Drag the handle to the partition size you want.

7. Click OK.

Aside from Home Edition for home users, there are another four editions for business, IT administers, enterprises, government, or any other agencies: EASEUS Partition Master Professional Edition, EASEUS Partition Master Server Edition, EASEUS Partition Master Unlimited Edition, EASEUS Partition Master Technician Edition.

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