Resize a Partition for Free in Windows 7 or Vista-gctid43658

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Although it's better to use 2 hard drives instead of 1 to separate your data from your programs (if the hard drive with the programs dies/gets a bad virus/etc. , you'll still have the data), splitting up (partitioning) the 1 hard drive is the next best thing. Each piece will have it's own drive letter.

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Why partition a drive? Here are a few common reasons:  
 
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• More than one person uses the computer and you want to keep separate files—and access rights—for security reasons. Partitioning can be particularly helpful when you share a PC with a child.
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• You want to squeeze more performance out of your PC.  Partitioning a large drive into smaller units improves performance by  decreasing the amount of traveling the drive's read/write head has to do  when it searches for data. A partition also shrinks the size of the  tables the computer uses to keep track of where data is stored, further  improving performance.
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• You want to make your system more manageable. If  you keep your operating system and applications on a partition separate  from your data, the data will be easier to back up and easier to  restore. What's more, if you need to reinstall the operating system, you  can do it without worrying about the data on the other partition.
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• You want to make your data more secure. If part of  your hard drive becomes corrupted or infected with malware, the other  partitions have a good chance of remaining unscathed.
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Resize a Partition for Free in Windows 7 or Vista

                                                                                                           Windows 7 and Vista include a built-in functionality in Disk  Management to shrink and expand partitions. No more 3rd party utilities  needed!
 
To get to this utility, open up Control Panel, and type in partition into the search box.. you'll immediately see the link show up:

 
 
Shrink a Partition
 In the Disk Management screen, just right-click on the partition that  you want to shrink, and select "Shrink Volume" from the menu.

 

In the Shrink dialog, you will want to enter the amount you want to  shrink by, not the new size. For example, if you want to shrink your  50gb partition by roughly 10gb so that it will now be roughly 40gb,  enter 10000 into the box:

 
 
Extend a Partition
 In the Disk Management screen, just right-click on the partition that  you want to shrink, and select "Extend Volume" from the menu.

 

On this screen, you can specify the amount that you want to increase  the partition by. In this case, I'm going to extend it back to the  roughly 50GB size that it was before.

 Note that the extend partition feature only works with contiguous space.


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