Windows 7 will allow you to resize / extend the size of your partition to a certain extent. To utilize this feature, navigate to ""Computer Management"" and select ""Disk Management."" There you will see the current partitions on the installed hard disks; if you right click on any partition you will have the options to ""Extend"" or ""Shrink"" the size.
check post 5 he's says extend is greyed out ,also i have win7 on a 80gig hdd and i can shrink it ,i have a 160gig ,partitioned into 2 equal parts and its greyed out on that two , i can shring but not extend
Last edited by caperjack; Nov 3rd, 2009 at 2:50 pm.
Hi,
I have just installed windows 7 on an old windows XP partition. It was big enough for XP but too small for 7. I can not use my Partition Magic as it is incompatible with 7, is there a free partition tool to resize my partition without problems like partition magic worked on XP?
I/we can shrink went cant extend ,and i will assume i will beable to extent the one drive i have partitioned when i format one of the partitions
my second drive is a 160 gig ,it was partitioned in 2 equal parts ,i only got the extend option in the first partition after i formatted the 2nd partition,it had available about 40 gigs to extend the first partition but would not do that ,i had to move data and format it first .
Yes, disk management has this shrink and expand feature, but it cannot move the partitions. Besides, disk management, there are some free partition magic alternatives. http://www.hdd-tool.com/partition-ma...lternative.htm
sometime i don't under stand features/things ,but where would i need to move a partition to!what is the advantage to being able to move a partition
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