How To Extend and Shrink Vista Disk Partition Tutorial

Here is a how to extend and shrink vista disk partition tutorial that allows vista user shrink and extending existing partition on Windows Vista by using windows in house partition manager.  This tutorial intention is to help those want to extend and shrink their disk partition without buying any third party disk partition application helps.

How to shrink and extend vista partition:

Shrinking Windows Vista Partitions or partitioning:

  1. Start Menu -> Control Panel -> System and Maintenance -> Administrative Tools -> Double Click Computer Management -> Storage -> Disk Management.
  2. Right click on vista disk partition that you want to shrink and select the shrink option.
  3. 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).
  4. Click Shrink and Vista partition application will start to shrink the disk according the amount that you enter.
  5. After shrink the partition, You can click the new partition and format it the way you want it.

Extending Windows Vista Partitions:

  1. Start Menu -> Control Panel -> System and Maintenance -> Administrative Tools -> Double Click Computer Management -> Storage -> Disk Management.
  2. Right click on vista disk partition that you want to extend and select the extend option.
  3. Then click Next in the Extend Volume Wizard.
  4. 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.
  5. Select the amount of disk space available that you want to extend in on the particular partition.
  6. Click Next and Confirm and Finish. That it! You have extended the partition.

If you’re not really sure how to extend and shrink your disk partition with above step, you can check out other windows disk partition software like Wondershare Disk Manager, Active Partition, Partition Wizard and SwissKnife partition software. Most of these partition software has a pretty nice wizard to assist you for disk partitioning purpose.

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  • Peter

    I liked your article on Extend and Shrink Vista Disk Partition.Straight to the point.Easy to follow. One piece of info missing that will clue everything up for me. Will any data be lost after shrinking a drive and then expanding another drive?

  • http://www.techmixer.com km

    @peter,

    normally data will not be lost since the vista shrinking process is based on current available space on the drives.

  • http://maxeasyguide.blogspot.com maxting

    Well if you follow through correct procedure, it’s unlikely that you will lost any data. You can get a details guide on Shrinking Vista Volume with print screen here.
    http://maxeasyguide.blogspot.c…ition-for-winxp.html

  • muhammad isa

    how about making new partition for window vista? can this resizing program make it?

  • Mark

    i have 10gb free space on a 60gb partition, i’ve defragmented it but i’m still unable to shrink it (it’s saying i have no space available to shrink), any ideas?

  • Baz

    Successfully shrunk a partition, but the only partition that it will let me Extend to use the free space… is the one that I shrunk in the first place..! So maybe no use for reassigning space to different partitions?

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  • vinod

    I am using iMac 8 with vista dual boot, I extend partition in vista and it is not visible in Mac how can i set to visible extend partitions on mac.

  • tommy

    Many users might prefer to shrink Vista partition by using the Vista built-in-Disk Management. Another instruction to get more information: http://www.extend-partition.com/resource/shrink-vista-partition.html