About Hard Drive Storage

Hard drive is storage device where to save the data and files, and we can utilize the disk within the computer by creating drive. Most of the users will partition own hard drive to two partitions or more to ensure a variety of data can be classified storage, so as to avoid a risk of data loss. While operating system partition crashed, we can again install a new system to repair it but this does not affect the data on the other partitions. If all the data are placed in the operating system partition, and you may need to recover your data and documents when system was attacked by virus and cannot enter into the windows.

 

Question about How to Repartition a Hard Drive

Someone asked "I installed Vista in the C: drive, and there is only a partition on the disk, I decided to install another new system Windows 7 to the disk, how to do? I cannot create new drive on the disk due to no unallocated space." Actually, we can a repartition hard drive into desired sizes on the basis of data security, but this may need to use 3rd party tool - Partition Assistant to repartition.

 

Free Software to Repartition Hard Disk

Aomei Partition Assistant Pro Edition is powerful solution to allow you experience with all features such as resize, create, delete and format partition, copy disk and copy partition and so on. It can work wonderfully on hardware RAID and Windows 7/2000/XP/Vista operating systems (32bit and 64bit). Your all data on the disk can be completely protected when all operations is being processed. This utility can repartition a hard drive easily to help junior users to manage their disk.

 

How to Repartition a Hard Drive without Losing Data with Partition Assistant

Here are the steps you have to follow to repartition hard drive (shrink big partition and create a new partition without losing data) through resizing operation in windows:

 

To begin, You need to download the software:
Download Aomei Partition Assistant Pro Edition (File Size: 3.19MB)

1. Install Aomei Partition Assistant, run it as administrator privileges.

2. Right click on the C: drive you want to repartition and select "resize" from the shortcut menu.

3. Please resize it to smaller (shrink it) by dragging the double-headed arrow circled in blue.

4. Now the C: drive has been shrunk, and we can make a new partition in unallocated space to keep classified data.

"Apply"button (on the toolbar) to change the operations to physical disk.

6. To achieve shrinking system drive, the software needs you to restart your computer to do these operations in a PreOS mode.

Go to Download Page of Partition Assistant

In addition, you can get the Partition Manager Server Edition if you want to manage hard drive and repartition a hard drive for your Windows Server. However, if you are a personal user or business PC owner work on Windows 7/2000/XP/Vista, the Partition Manager Pro Edition is a good choice to service for you. Please click the link to download the Partition Manager.