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Shrink Volumes Or Partitions in Windows
Windows 7, Windows 8, 8.1, 10, and Vista include a built-in functionality in Disk Management to shrink and expand partitions. No more 3rd party utilities needed! It’s worth noting that many third-party utilities will be more feature-rich, but you can do the very basic stuff in Windows without adding anything new. With this tool you can Shrink Volumes Or Partitions in Windows and create new ones. I will walk you through the process as seen on Windows 8.
To access Disk Management tool – go to > Search box and type > partitions in the search box.
Or
Right click on My Computer then right click on Manage.
From the results you got Disk Management window.
You can see a list of volumes and their properties. They can refer to several hard drives or partitions on a single hard drive.
How to Shrink a Partition
In the Disk Management screen, just right click on the partition that you want to shrink and select “Shrink Volume” from the menu.
Let’s say you have a single hard drive and a single volume called C on which your operating system and all your programs are installed and on which you keep all your personal files. You have several GB of free space and want to create a new volume or partition called D to store all your personal data. You do not have any unallocated space.
Before you can create a new volume, you must free up space from which you can create, you have to create unallocated space. To do this, right click on > Drive (Which you want to shrink ) and select > Shrink Volume. Windows will take a moment to query the volume for available shrink space.
You will now see the space by which you shrinked Drive as unallocated space right next to your Drive volume. To create a new volume, right click > Unallocated and select > New Simple Volume…
The Volume Wizard will guide you through the process. You can decide how much of the unallocated space you want to assign to the new volume, you can pick a drive letter, and a file system.
For the changes to come into effect, you have to reboot the computer.
