Extend and Shrik Vista Disk Partition
With Windows Vista, third party Partition application like Partition Magic, Disk Director or any other Partition Manager is no more required because Windows Vista itself is equipped with their in-house partition manager.
This vista partition application is easy to use which it allow to shrink and extending existing partition like other popular partition program. Below is the simple step to shrink and extend vista partition.
Shrinking Windows Vista Partitions or partitioning:
- Start Menu -> Control Panel -> System and Maintenance -> Administrative Tools -> Double Click Computer Management -> Storage -> Disk Management.
- Right click on vista disk partition that you want to shrink and select the shrink option.
- Then , A pop-up box will be appear and you need to enter the amount of space you want to shrink the partition by (By default, the maximum is entered).
- Click Shrink and Vista partition application will start to shrink the disk according the amount that you enter.
- After shrink the partition, You can click the new partition and format it the way you want it.
Extending Windows Vista Partitions:
- Start Menu -> Control Panel -> System and Maintenance -> Administrative Tools -> Double Click Computer Management -> Storage -> Disk Management.
- Right click on vista disk partition that you want to extend and select the extend option.
- Then click Next in the Extend Volume Wizard.
- Then Vista extend volume wizard will list down all the free space available on the disk drive and let you extend on the particular disk partition.
- Select the amount of disk space available that you want to extend in on the particular partition.
- Click Next and Confirm and Finish. That is it! You have extended the partition.
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Pauley on 02 Nov 2007 at 7:18 am #
I need to extend my partition and followed the directions as mentioned above for Vista Home Premium. However, the extend partition is greyed out and cannot extend it.
Hooman on 15 Apr 2008 at 7:05 pm #
When i use disk management to shrink and create a new volume, ican shrink the partition but i get an error in creating new volume so i wont be able to see my new drive, what should i do?
leo on 03 Jul 2008 at 12:56 am #
I have used a free easeus partition manager to rezise my hard disk,but i get a error in merging two partitions.
Then i have to deleted one partition and allocated the free space to another partition.
Totally,it OK as a freeware!
Abdul Cader on 12 Sep 2008 at 8:37 pm #
I’ve already check your tip.
I try to shrink drive D (logical drive) & extend drive C (primary partition). After I shrink drive D, I got empty ‘free space’. Now I want to extend drice C. When I right click drive C ‘extend volume’ option is grayed out. Pls advise how to proceed?
After I check with another website, I found alternative option to use disk magament using:
Start > Run > diskpart.exe
I follow the screen & shrink drive D (logical drive) & when I extend drive C (primary partition), it says: ‘There is not enough usable free space on specified disk(s) to extend the volume.
Pls advise how to add that free space to drive C?
socjha on 30 Oct 2008 at 5:59 pm #
I cannot create a new partition..
when I try.. I wrote something like a “max no partition”
I have only 2 partition that I can see and the other 2 that I can’t..
I use vista..
help me plz
George on 29 Jul 2009 at 5:23 am #
Abdul, I am trying the same to shrink my D drive and extend the C: on Vista, but get the same problem as you. Must be becuse C is the boot partition or something.
Did you manage to find a solution?
Jason Saggers on 26 Sep 2009 at 8:08 pm #
You can’t extend your Primary OS (C:) partion because it is an operating system drive so you can’t add free space to this partion so to speak, there is no way around that unless you use a program like partion magic which I recommend against because it doesn’t work that well with Vista.
Good one Microsoft.
Bejay on 30 Dec 2009 at 2:41 am #
very sad no one has the solution for this problem, that how to extend the C: partition. Actually the windows vista is very bad OS, it also took a lot of space about 20 GB. I am sick of this OS. microsoft worst OS is Windows Vista.