Shrink/Extend a Partition on Your Hard Drive with Vista

Mar 25

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If you use multiple partitions on your hard drive, you may want to shrink or extend one of them - after realizing you want more space on another one of the partitions. This guide will show you how to shrink or extend a partition on your hard drive.

1. Right click on Computer and then click Manage.

Shrink a partition with Vista

2. The Computer Management Console will show.

Shrink a partition with Vista

3. In the left pane, click Storage and then Disk Management. Then the next screen is shown (on the right pane).

Shrink a partition with Vista

4. Now you see all your partitions which you have created. To shrink a partition, simply right click on the partition and choose Shrink Volume.

Shrink a partition with Vista

5. The next screen is then shown.

Shrink a partition with Vista

6. Here you can enter the amount of space to shrink in MB.

If you would like to extend a partition, you will need to make sure there is empty space available behind the partition. Then go back to step 4 and instead select Extend Volume.