Without deleting any partition, you can resize partition on Windows XP 32 and 64 bit by using free partition software for Windows XP. Usually, you can use this free partition tool to shrink partition, move partition and extend partition so as to reallocate disk space on your computer.
Usually, you can use this software to extend system partition because deleting partition on Windows XP cannot help increase size of system partition. How to Resize Disk Partition on Windows XP 32 and 64 Bit How can you resize hard disk on Windows XP 32 or 64 bit so as to reallocate disk space more reasonably or fix the low disk space problem on system partition? Situation 2: Create a new partition on Windows XP You may want to resize partition on Windows XP 32 or 64 bit because there is only one or two partition on your computer.
Situation 3: Disk space was allocated unreasonably Do you think that the disk space was allocated unreasonably on Windows XP? NOTE : Backup your data stored on each partition before deleting. IM-Magic Partition. There are lots of ways to change partition size, for example, Disk Management provides functions to extend volume and shrink volume and users can use these functions to deal with some partition size issue; third-party partition tool enables to resize partition for complex situations.
If you want to extend partition size here, you should make sure there is adjacent free disk space, if not you nee to delete a partition to get unallocated space. To shrink a partition, you can follow these steps:. Step 2 : Right-click on the partition you want to reduce its size, and choose Shrink Volume , as below:. Step 3: Enter the disk size in MB you want to shrink from the pop-up window and click Shrink button. Note: you cannot shrink a volume beyond the point where any unmovable files are located.
It can resize partition, extend partition, shrink partition and split partition without losing data. Right-click on the partition you want to change size and choose Resize Partition. Note: there are two other options available: extend partition and split partition. Extend partition can increase partition size by moving free space from other partition, while split partition can divide one partition into two partitions. As to resize partition, you can either increase or shrink its size.
Step 2 : Set partition size to be moved between these two partitions and click Start button. Step 3 : Click Yes to continue when DiskGenius asks confirmation for rest operations. Unlike Windows 7, 8, 10, you cannot resize hard drive by shrinking partition and extend partition under Disk Management.
Therefore, you have to repartition hard drive if you want to reallocate disk space on Windows XP computer. Without relying on any partition software , you may follow the guide below to partition hard drive on Windows XP under Disk Management:. Then, right click a partition and click Delete Partition to delete the selected partition so that you can get some unallocated space.
Right click another partition and click Delete Partition to delete one more partition to get some unallocated space again. Usually, the two deleted partition will show as an unallocated partition. Now, you can right click the unallocated partition and click New Partition.
You need to specify partition size to the new partition. Usually, you can specify the total space of the unallocated partition to the new partition so as to create a new partition.
Or you can only specify some space to the new partition and leave some unallocated space to create one more partition.
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