Resizing hard drive Partitions – Vista

Windows Vista has lot of built in features which are very much useful to users and one such feature / utility / tool is resizing hard drive partition. In earlier versions this feature was not available and users were using third party tools like partition magic to perform this operation.

Using this feature to resize the hard drive partition will not delete the data stored on that partition but personally recommend that to have back up before doing such changes.

If you looking to resize the drive partition then follow the below mentioned steps:

  • Right click on My Computer
  • Clicks on manage option
  • Locate Disk Management and select
  • Select the partition on which you want to make changes
  • Right Click and click on “Shrink Volume” to decreased the size of the paritition and “Extend Volume” to increase the size of the partition.