Windows 7 (formerly codenamed Blackcomb and Vienna) is the next version of Microsoft Windows, an operating system produced by Microsoft for use on personal computers, including home and business desktops, laptops, Tablet PCs, net books and media center PCs. So, you are planning to install Windows 7 now or just migrate to Windows 7 for a dual-boot system, yes? Have you prepared a
partition manager in your toolkit for better Windows 7 administration? Say, create a new partition to install Windows 7, or extend the full system partition for a smooth Windows 7 running of, etc.
Disk Management Tool in Windows 7
There is no obvious improvement of Disk Management Tool in Windows 7. Maybe Microsoft thought it is good enough, or Microsoft is afraid of monopolization, so the Disk Management Tool in Windows 7 is nearly the same with Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008.
So some advanced partition management in Windows 7 is still unavailable. People have to seek
best partition manager software for Windows 7.
EASEUS Partition Master, a comprehensive hard disk partition tool and system optimization software for Windows-based administration, works well with Windows 7.
How to deal with the Windows 7 partition advanced managementThen how to deal with the Windows 7 partition advanced management? Here are two solutions for this.
Note:
1. When running our product, please close other applications including the antivirus software and the firewall. Some special software such as Norton, Kaspersky, AVG, ZoneAlarm needs to be uninstalled temporarily.
2. If there is much data on your partition, the resizing will take a long time. You need to be patient to wait. Please keep 5~10% free space as our product needs some space for data exchanging during resizing.
3. We suggest you do this step by step, such as, decrease partition D, apply it (If you don't open any file/application on D, our product won't request a reboot). Then increase partition C and apply it.
Windows 7 Partition Advanced Management Solution 1
Offering a simple and convenient way to manage your partitions, EASEUS Partition Master runs well on Windows 7. Say, it enables you to
extend the system partition,
Create,
Delete,
Resize/Move,
Copy,
Merge,
Split or
Format partition.
To resize a existing NTFS or FAT partition, please follow the operations bellow:
1. Launch EASEUS Partition Master and you will see a main board.
2. Right click the partition and select Resize/Move.
3. A popped-up dialog box indicates the current size of the selected partition. The box also depicts the used and unused space on the partition and the free space surrounding the partition (if any exists); the minimum and maximum sizes that you can resize a partition; cluster size of the partition.
4. Position the mouse pointer on the right partition handle. Drag the handle to the partition size you want when the mouse pointer changes to a double-headed arrow and click OK.
5. Click Apply.
By the way, there is a
more detailed step instruction of resizing and moving partitions.
Windows 7 Partition Advanced Management Solution 2
The other safe way for managing Windows 7 Partition is to make a bootable CD of partition software. Some partition software like
EASEUS Partition Master Professional Edition and its
higher editions can create bootable CD for users to perform advanced partition management before Windows 7 starts.
You may check the tutorial
How to manage partitions before Windows 7 starts.
