Method 2. Shrink Partition with Windows 11/10 Built-In Disk ManagementWindows 11/10 built-in Disk Management enables you to view and manage your disk drives. It can shrink volume and extend volume. However, it doesn't support the shrink operation on your non-adjacent space....
Toshrink a partition, enter the amount of space that you want to reduce from the partition in MB (megabytes) and pressOK. This will create some unallocated space next to the partition that you can use for other purposes. Toextend a partition, make sure that there’s already some unallocate...
Shrink Volume allows you to create a new disk space from the existing disk and it will be an unallocated region. If you discover that you need an additional partition but do not have additional disks, you can refer to the following steps to create it. Note: If the existing partition conta...
Shrink Partition in Windows 11 Shrinking a partition reduces its size by eliminating unnecessary disk space. This can be useful in several situations. For example, you might discover that the amount of free disk space on a volume is much less than anticipated. In this case, you might shrink ...
In Windows 11, you can create multiple partitions on a hard drive. If a hard drive partition has more free space and you want to create a separate partition from that, you can do so by shrinking the volume of that partition. However, theShrink Volume feature does not workfor some users...
Shrink the First Partition (if necessary): If the first partition has more space than needed, users can shrink it to create unallocated space for the merge. Merge the Partitions: Right-click on the first partition, select "Delete Volume" to convert it into unallocated space, then right-click...
Before creating a system image, you need to manually create a new partition and set the format to NTFS type. Here you can learn more about [Windows 11/10] Hard disk partition, Shrink, and Extend to create a new partition. Back to Table of Contents Create System Image Because Windows wi...
It is able to create, delete, format, shrink and extend partitions. But it is not the best tool to help repartition hard drive. To reallocate space of C drive in Windows 10/11 computer, you must delete D (or E) at first if you don't want to use any software. Only when there's...
On Windows 11, you can use the “Disks & volumes” settings to shrink or expand a partition on the hard drive without losing data. To change the size of a partition on Windows 11, use these steps: OpenSettingson Windows 11. Click onSystem. ...
you can shrink a partition on the disk to release free space, and then add to C drive. In this way, operating system, programs and anything else (except partition size) keeps the same with before. To accomplish this task, NIUBI Partition Editor has free edition for Windows 11/10/8/7/...