Shrink Or Extend Volumes In Windows 7 Without Formatting

Shrink or Extend Volumes Using Disk Management Utility :

Disk Management Utility is a built-in tool in Windows 7. It can be used to shrink or extend volumes, create or delete hard disk partition, format partition, change drive letter and so on without formatting your windows 7.

Let's Start :

1) Go to "start" and type "disk management", and hit enter.

2) Window like shown below opens, it is Disk Management Utility.

3) Now select the volume you want to shrink and right click on it-->choose shrink volume.

 4) After calculating space available, it shows details.

5) After shrinking process a new column "free space" will be appear.

6) The process of shrinking is done. Now you can create new partition(volume) of this free space or you can extend it to its previous volume(in this case "G:").

7) To extend the volume right click on G: -->choose extend volume and follow the wizard. It will immediately extend the volume.

  8) To create new volume, right click on "free space"-->choose "new simple volume" and follow the wizard.

9) IT'S DONE !

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