Extend & Shrink Volume

Windows 7 & Vista have built in feature to Shrink & Extend your Hard drive Volume using the Disk Management utility.

Open Disk Management program, Right click My Computer, Click Manage then Navigate to Disk Management.

Shrink the drive:

• Right click on the drive that you want to Shrink and select Shrink Volume.

• After this it will Querying volume for available Shrink Space

• Give the amount of space you want to Shrink, the space should be entered in Mb. Remember 1Gb == 1024Mb, So if you want to shrink 10gb space then enter 10240 mb

• After Shrinking you will see unallocated space on the drive with a Black bar at the top.

Extend the Drive:

• Now right click the drive that has to be extended and choose the Extend Volume option

• Select 'Next' on the Extend Volume Wizard

• Then enter the amount of space that is free on the drive to Extend

• And Click on Next after entering the amount of space to extend, Click 'Finish'.

Extend partition works only when there is Contagious space.

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