Resize Partition for Drive Space on Windows System
When I need to carry out partition resize for my hard disk space on my system of Windows, someone said that only by the aid of built-in disk management, do without using of third party hdd partition manager, but, I made much effort and it also couldn’t meet my requirements satisfactorily. Here I come up with a conclusion between the Windows hard disk drive management tool and the third party partition software—Partition Assistant offered by Aomei Technology as example.
Windows disk management tool vs. Partition Assistant
Common:
Both of these can create partition, expand partition, and shrink partition, delete partition, format partition, change drive letter, set a partition active, convert the basic disk to dynamic disk, convert computer filesystem.
Advantages of Partition Assistant
- Move partition: Generally, if it has C and D drive, and some unallocated space, we would like to increase C partition, but without moving D partition, we can’t expand it from your unallocated space with Windows disk management method, Partition Assistant is able to do.
- Expand partition: With Partition Assistant, increase as you desire, but, when use Windows disk management tool, there should be unallocated disk space following the partition that you want to extend, if not, “Extend Volume” option is grayed out.
- Hide partition: we can hide partition which won’t see by others to help keep our privacy.
- Unlimited extend partition volume within a total size, but Windows disk management tool just could shrink lower than one half.
- Permanently delete partition: never recovered by others.
- Check error: help users to discover errors.
- Convert dynamic disk to basic disk: to realize the inter-conversion between these two categories of disks, make full use of these advantages.
- Label partitions: Partition Assistant provide convenience to change the label of partition, if you storage some music files, label “music” your partition label, using this function, it does you a favor to identify.
Attention: Before Vista, Windows disk management tool can’t support partition resize for hard drive space, like Windows XP, 2000, 2003.
More advantages:
Partition Assistant supports all of os’s, like Windows 7/XP/2000/Vista and Server 2008/2003/2000, all hard disks recognized by Windows just like IDE, SATA, SCSI, Hardware RAID, USB external disks, and Fire wire disks.
Once you download the partition software, every procedure can be accomplished on one window, and easy to partition resize for your hard disk space under the condition of without losing data. Want to know more from here: How to extend system partition, expand and enlarge C: drive partition?
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