Pages

Subscribe:

June 27, 2009

How to resize your partitions of the hard drive?

First thing - Take a backup of all the important data on CDs/DVD or any other external storage device. Your Data is important rgt?? Hmm...Now if you still didnt get the requirement here, Let me give an example. You have a drive 'E'. Say you have assigned 20 GB and now its getting rapidly filled up. Now you need more space!!! hmm...How can you do it? You have two options...

One is to remove all the partitions and create new partitions of your desired size.But this would completely remove or erase all your existing data from the hard drive.
The Second option is to use a third party partition management tool to resize the partitions of your hard drive. There are various tools available for the same. I am not going to explain on how to do it using a third party tools. I would just suggest some of the best ones.

Freewares - You need to do a lot of study for these and only then you can be live!
  • Partition Logic
  • EASEUS Partition Manager Home Edition (I am in office now and websense is blocking me to provide you an exact link for each of these. Do yourself a favor by googling this!)
Best Tool Available - Download : Partition Magic





The Partition Magic is a very well known, trusted and powerful. But anything like this isn't free!!! It costs around 70$ but would be worth it instead of playing around with your valuable data. Check the Manual for the detailed steps and you can do it finally. Whatever tool you use, backup all your data first and most important - Ensure you donot lose power during the process. (Have a UPS and still any problem - Get an Inverter Power for your System!)

0 comments:

Post a Comment