Disk extend windows 7

How do you usually extend Windows 7 system partition? To ensure that the system partition extending is flexible and safe, it is better for our users to get help from professional disk partition manager. And, this post of MiniTool tells you what to do. Most computer users, I believe, are not likely to perform operations on system partition, because system partition stores boot files of the operating system. Once these important files are damaged by inappropriate operations, the OS may get corrupt and even leading to serious data loss, which I believe is a situation that nobody wants to encounter.

However, we have to resize system partition sometimes, such as to cope with low disk space issue , or to shrink system partition size as it is taking too much disk space.

Today what I am going to talk about is how to extend Windows 7 system partition , to help users who are unable to increase C drive in Windows 7 using Disk Management.

Users who are familiar with Windows built-in Disk Management tool know that Disk Management enables them to resize partition since Windows 7, and the corresponding features are Extend Volume and Shrink Volume. The above picture shows that extend Windows 7 system partition is possible by using this Disk Management tool. In this case, we just follow the prompt and extend C drive in Windows 7. But most of the time we may find Extend Volume is greyed out as showing below. If no unallocated space are available to use, I think users will have to delete a primary partition that immediately follows the system partition to increase C drive in Windows 7.

And data backup should be given priority. Click to tweet. Well then, is there a way to extend system partition in Windows 7 without affecting data? Actually, we can seek for better solutions. For example, the third party partition magic is a good choice.

We use this free tool to manage partition and disk by running a command-line through scripts or direct inputting commands. However, it still has a drawback. When there is no allocated space on your disk, you cannot extend it. Thus, you have to create an unallocated space or move the existing unallocated space to C drive. With it, you can easily move partition. Now, coming into our point-extend C drive in Windows 7 without formatting. Step 1.

After the disk information loading finish, click Next. Step 4: Select a partition to shrink some free space or click here to extend partition by unallocated space on the disk. Notice: From the above window, you can see a Minimum Partition Size and a Maximum Partition Size, you can drag the blockage to specify its size or manually input size in the box after Partition New Size.

Step 6: Preview the operation and click Proceed if you ensure you want to do it. Then, wait for the result. The above three methods can extend the C drive in Windows 7 successfully without formatting. But once there is no allocated space right beside the target partition, Disk Management, and Diskpart will be unavailable unless you download a third-party tool to move it. At the same time, it can finish all the operations independently without another utility.

However, there are still some situations Disk Management does not work. Step 6: Type exit and leave this window. To extend a partition, you can use DiskPart command line. It can extend a volume into adjacent unallocated space on the right. Here, you can learn the elaborate tutorial to extend a volume successfully. Sometimes, Windows users may find their partition on the basic disk or the volume on the dynamic disk runs out of space quickly and finally suffers from low disk space warning.

As a consequence, the computer will run slower gradually and some apps cannot load smoothly as expected. To solve it, you can delete some unnecessary files, uninstall programs, move apps from one drive to another , etc. However, the most effective method should be extending the volume. To extend the partition as you need, you can make use of Diskpart, a native disk management tool of Windows operating system. Step 5. Then, you can select the partition which you want to extend.

Type: select partition n and press Enter. Please make sure there is unallocated space behind the partition you want to extend. Then, it will remind you that Diskpart successfully extended the volume. Here is a screenshot of the details. It has the Partassist.

Besides, it's able to directly merge non-adjacent unallocated space into the target partition, or allocate free space from one partition to another. Much powerful than DiskPart command line in extending partition in Windows 10, 8, 7.

Download the demo version and have a try, please.