Partitioning Hard Drive in Windows 7 Without Formatting

Posted by Tanmay

With the advent of the technical world comes new operating systems each with some more facilities than its predecessor. The same happened with Windows. Recent operating systems like Windows 7 and also Windows Vista has a great dexterity in them that the Hard Disk can be partitioned, re-sized without formatting your computer. Here we discuss how to perform this act in Windows 7.

See also: Re-install Windows by Formatting Computer Without Losing Data

Shrinking or expanding the Hard Drive in Windows 7 can be brought about by a utility program known as Disk Management. How will you delete, re-size, or even create a new partition in this operating system is hereby described below:

Guidelines and procedure for the entire operation to be carried out successfully

  • First of all go to “ Start ” and then on the window that appears search for ” Computer ” and then once you right-click on it another window opens and then you should navigate to the option “ Manage “.

  • At once a new window will open entitled  “Computer Management“. In this new window click on “ Storage ” and then go to “ Disk Management “.

  • The completion of the second step will give you a view of all the drives present in your computer.

  • Among these select the one you want to partition. Then right-click on the selected drive and navigate to the option ” Shrink Volume.. “.

  • A new window should open in which the size of the drive before shrink will be mentioned and the available space to shrink will be mentioned , and in the next line you will be asked to enter the amount of space you want to shrink and this will be the size of the new partition.

Caution : The space you enter must be within the limit of the available space displayed above.


  • After entering the values click on the option “ Shrink ” and wait for the process to complete. The time taken for the operation may be long depending upon the size of the disk and the space to be shrunk. Once the operation is completed a window appears showing unallocated space and the value is exactly the one you entered earlier. Select this unallocated space and on right clicking on it click on the option “ New Simple Volume “.

  • A wizard will open up. Go through the wizard and fill in the values required. Usually the value needed to enter is the same one that you entered as the volume to be shrunk.
  • The drive newly created needs a letter to be assigned to it. Assign any letter of your choice as it does not make any difference.
  • A Format page will appear and in it carefully notice that the File System selected is “ NTFS ” . After this is done enter a name for your drive and then click on ” Next ” and then “ Finish “.

You have reached your goal. You have partitioned your Hard Drive in Windows 7 without formatting your computer and without the use of any software. Feel free to drop your comments in the comment box.

The complete video tutorial:

Partition Hard Disk without Formatting [Screencast]

* Update: This article was written on the basis of a test in Windows 7 Ultimate version. But after getting the readers feedback, it seems that the procedure does not work fine in the other versions of Windows 7 like Home Premium etc. So please make sure that you are using Windows 7 ultimate before applying this method to partition the hard drive.

** Update: While the procedure works fine in Windows 7 Ultimate version, it does not work in Windows 7 home, starter or other versions properly if the number of partitions exceeds 4. That means if you try to create a new partition that is no. 5 in your hard disk, this process will not work otherwise it will work fine. So if you are in Windows 7 Home or starter edition, make sure that your total no of partition is three before you go for a new partition.

The above solution was made by one of our reader Hide.

So you have to make sure your unallocated drive is not no.5. I had to merge move files from recovery drive somewhere else and merge it with the unallocated one. After that I just followed everything here and it worked like magic. Hope this helps.

Thanks to Hide. Read his words at the comment section.

***Update: If you are a Windows 7 Starter user, check the following link out:

Partition Hard Drive in Windows 7 Starter Without Formatting.

Also read: Share Keyboard and Mouse Between Two Computers.

This post was written by Tanmay

Reader Comments

  1. Nice one to see. Thanks for sharing.

  2. suchismitaroy

    Really useful tips..

  3. tanmaygeek

    @SuchismitaThank you for your comment.

  4. Dheeraj

    hi there,
    i performed the above method on my 320 GB C drive (effectively which was 288 GB) but could only shrink it to 159 GB, while the operating system and other files take only about 25-30 GB or so.
    I need to shrink it more.
    Any help…?

  5. Tanmay

    @Dheeraj: Confirm if the total space of hard disk is available.

  6. Ishwinder

    Like Dheeraj i have same problem.i bought new laptop with HDD 320GB it showed C Drive to be 283GB,as it is said above i shrunk it but it stopped with C Drive size 156GB out of which only 36GB is used rest 120GB is free.I want to reduce more bring it down to 50GB for C Drive.can anyone help???

  7. Tanmay

    @Ishwinder: After reading your comment I can only suggest you not to follow this method if you want to repartition your root drive. The best way is to partition by a bootable disk. You can repartition your other partitions applying this method and the result should be positive. Feel free to ask any further question. Thank you.

  8. james kinsey

    Nice feature.

  9. Tanmay

    @james Kinsey:Thanks for comment here.

  10. Akram Sharifi

    Thanks this is really working i was very helpfull

  11. bharath

    wow thats great information!!!
    thank u boss!!!

  12. unknown

    thank u very very very very much,,,really helpful

  13. Saurabh

    I bought a new laptop with 500GB HDD. their was only one drive i.e c-drive present. I want to add one more drive without formating my laptop as it is pre-loaded with genuine windows7 home premium.

  14. VICKY

    Really the easiest method of NEW DRIVE CREATION.

    THANKS.

  15. Tanmay

    Vicky, glad you found it easy. Thanks for your valuable comment.

  16. Freshie

    Thanks for this. I’ve been in there before but didn’t know of the options.
    I like to keep my media separate. Videos on V, Music on M etc.
    It makes it easy to share over the network and map networked drives.
    You just saved me a lot of time. Cheers ;)

  17. Tarun

    Excellent feature

  18. eri

    why can i shrink C drive to a new label more than 10 gbyte…. i want it to be at least 100 GB…help plss

  19. Jyoti Kaurav

    Hi, Well I bought My Sony VAIO Laptop from NEwJersey, USA. It had inbuilt softwares and window 7.It has only C drive I want to partition my drive without losing any of my data and even without formating.
    Can this method help me do so? As I do not have any Back Up neither of the window and softwares not even of my data.

  20. Tanmay

    @Jyoti: Yes you can.

  21. sree

    very clear n useful.
    Thank U.

  22. Santosh

    Hi,

    I have bought new vaio laptop. Harddisk memory is 320 gb with single frive. I would like to partition this drive in to 4 parts ( appr 80gb*4) without causing any damage to windows files (i.e not formatting the hard disk).. Can u plz provide me the solution

  23. chathuparch

    great i hav to try………….., thank you sir!

  24. subramanyam

    hi,

    This information really helped me.

    Thanks a ton!!!

    Rgds,
    Subbu.

  25. Ongsky

    Thanks bro.
    It really helps

  26. s.senthil kumar

    thanks for your imformation regurding divide the memory space in my new sony vaio(model VPCS137GG) laptop having a windows 7 professional 64 bit operating systems.My laptop having 500gb of total capacity hard disc and i have one more questions i have divide the partioning in to two coloum namely C and E the C colon has the 230gb of total capacity and 200gb is free space the widows operating systems installed in this colon, and the E colon has the 221gb of the free space and again i wish to divide the C colon but the computers shows there are no space is available to shrink but the C colon have 200 gb of free memory space how can i split the memory in the C colon atlest divide 100gb balance 100gb is i have reserved the software instlation and system files so plese help me how can i divide the atlest 100gb in C coln.

  27. Benjamin

    I repartitined my c: drive with these.Thank you for dear its working.My c drive was 320 gb. I partitioned another 100 MB. Again I try to shrink it for another 40 MB . Its partioned but I cant format it. Showing Maximum partioning had done. There are 14 GBs another partion and another 8 mb patiotion also but drive letters not showing… how can I use the last partioned space…please help

  28. Benjamin

    I repartitined my c: drive with these.Thank you dear for this guidlines .. its working.My c drive had 320 gb. I partitioned another 100 MB. Again I try to shrink it for another 40 MB . Its partioned but I cant format it. Showing Maximum partioning had done. There are 14 GBs another partion and another 8 mb patiotion also but drive letters not showing… how can I use these unused space( last partioned space…)please help

  29. Tanmay

    @Benjamin: You can’t use that last partition (8mb).

  30. Waq

    i already part the disk. but i have one problem when i want to create a new simple volume.
    i am following same procedures as you but there dialog box saying that:-
    “the operation you selected will convert the selected basic disk to dynamic disk. if you convert the disk to dynamic, you will not be able to start installed operating systems from any volume on the disk (except the current boot volue). Are you sure you want to continue?”
    after i click finish on box.

    Then i click Yes to continue, but then there another box appear saying:-
    “Dynamic disks are not supported by thi operating system or server configuration. Dynamic disks are not supported on clusters.”

    Which part i missing? n how to solve this? Can you help me..?

    FYI,
    My OS windows 7 starter.
    Using HP Mini 110-3100(netbook)
    stystem type 32bit
    Intel Atom 1.83GHz

  31. nasos

    really you made it seem like a piece of cake. thanks pal

  32. Supriy Gautam

    Hi,

    I hv created partition in C drive according ur method but there is a problem when I created partition near about 144 GB there is a message ” you cannot create a new volume in this allocated space because the disk already contains the maximum no. of partitions ” please help me ?

  33. Kofi

    I found the information very useful. Really appreciate it.

  34. cikida

    love it!
    thanks a lot coz help me solve this thing without formatting

  35. Tanmay

    Glad that we could help you. Welcome Cikida.

  36. Devendra

    i have partitioned according to this method but their is a problem in formatting the new unallotted drive,it show error”the operation you selected will convert the selected basic disk to dynamic disk”.”dynamic disks are not supported by this OS”.
    Pls give me the solution.I have 280 Gb C drive i want it to partition it into three drives.

  37. OM

    Its really good it works for me really .. thanks a lot

  38. nayeem

    nice one…really helpful.. Thanks for sharing.

  39. hj

    dat ws amazing,,,,thanx a lot

  40. shivam

    hey,,TANMAY
    its awesome ,, i did it finally ..
    thank you very very much
    thank u

  41. Irum

    I also have same problem as Dheraaj and Ishwinder, but the issue issue is i don’t know hoe to create a partition using a bootable disk.
    Can you please guide me to do so! it will be a great help.

  42. Tanmay

    Insert your bootable disk to your cd drive, press any key to boot fromcd when it prompts to do so and then follow the on screen instructions. Hope you will be able to create partition using the bootable disk.

  43. Veena

    Thanx a ton.. :)
    thanx for posting :)
    keep a cute smile always on your lips
    ♥ Veena ♥

  44. Fayaz Shah

    Hi Tanmay,

    i followed the same pattern to shrink my C drive but i got some issues. I am not able to format the free space. The error reads “You Cannot create a new volume in this unallocated space because the disk already contains the maximum number of partitions”. Kindly help.

  45. Yasir

    Good info!

  46. well thanks a lot it did work….bt I wanted to make a bigger partition I only could make partition of only 121GB…my hard disk space is 500GB to be precise 464GB…..is thr any way to make a bigger partition like 250 GB around???? thanks

  47. Alem

    Fantastico!

    I will try it, I believe it works.

  48. Rajeev

    fantastic…cool , it was easy..thanks a lot

  49. Tipsy

    Worked Perfectly Well.. Almost Forgot and this Helped thanks for sharing….

  50. MR LANO

    Really appreciate ur info bro.. Even me (dummy in IT) can do the partition easily witjuz followed the step above.. its worked!! Thanx.. =)

  51. Tanmay

    MR Lano, thanks for your appreciation.

  52. Rajan

    Amazing knowledge bro:) very good works wonderful! many thanks

  53. Manjunath

    Hi, I have a Dell with 500GB Hard disk, but its of only single partitioned and i want 4 HarDrives, and one more thing that it contains backup(recovery drive) and a OEM partition so please suggest me a solution.

    Thank you
    Manjunath Hiremath

  54. kshitij

    hi , i got laptop with 320gb hdd with windows 7. i want to make system drive(c drive) only 50 gb .how is it possible. in computer manage part i can make c drive 148gb. it is so big so i want to make it 50Gb. plz reply

  55. Pankaj

    I already part the disk. but i have one problem when i want to create a new simple volume. I am following same procedures as you but there dialog box saying that:-
    “the operation you selected will convert the selected basic disk to dynamic disk. if you convert the disk to dynamic, you will not be able to start installed operating systems from any volume on the disk (except the current boot volue). Are you sure you want to continue?”

    Then i click Yes to continue, but then there another box appear saying:-
    “Dynamic disks are not supported by thi operating system or server configuration. Dynamic disks are not supported on clusters.”

    Now all my drives have become ‘Dynamic’, including C-drive.

    Can somebody tell me whether I have done something wrong?

  56. Renjit

    Thank you so much for help. This helped me a lot to creating a new partion in my new lap

  57. Pharaz

    I am stuck just like Pankaj, I’ve this unallocated space of 200+GB now but when create new simple partition get the message “the operation you selected will convert the selected basic disk to dynamic disk. if you convert the disk to dynamic, you will not be able to start installed operating systems from any volume on the disk (except the current boot volue). Are you sure you want to continue?” and then on yes it give the error Dynamic disks are not supported by thi operating system or server configuration. Dynamic disks are not supported on clusters.”

    I am running windows 7 Starter on an HP netbook.

  58. Dhananjay

    yes this is very nice wizard for helping in create partition.

  59. chethan

    I already part the disk. but i have one problem when i want to create a new simple volume. I am following same procedures as you but there dialog box saying that:-
    “the operation you selected will convert the selected basic disk to dynamic disk. if you convert the disk to dynamic, you will not be able to start installed operating systems from any volume on the disk (except the current boot volue). Are you sure you want to continue?”

    Then i click Yes to continue, but then there another box appear saying:-
    “Dynamic disks are not supported by thi operating system or server configuration. Dynamic disks are not supported on clusters.”

    Now all my drives have become ‘Dynamic’, including C-drive.

    Can somebody tell me whether I have done something wrong? please help me..

  60. Tanmay

    Chethan: Are you using Windows 7 ultimate or another version?

  61. chethan

    No, i am using windows 7 home premium.

  62. Tanmay

    Chethan: We are really sorry for our inconvenience. This tutorial works fine for Windows 7 ultimate. We will be updating this matter in the article.

  63. hanwallage

    its great yeahhh it works for thanks

  64. us

    I have done the partition of the disk and i got a new disk.Then afer some days i made partition of that disk again and i was successful but when i clicked finish and got a window written ” you can not creat a new volume in this unallocated space because the disk already contains the maximum number of partitions.” now i lose my 80GB of space from the disk. what should i do ? plz suggest.

  65. us

    I have got my 80GB space back. Can i make partition ? why is this above condition happening?

  66. Tanmay

    It depends on how your HD is partitioned.

  67. Tanmay

    But you can always partition it.

  68. sam

    im facing a same prob can you tell me how did u get back your lost space?????

  69. hello………..
    I am using windows 7 OS .I have a problem that a have only one Drive i.e ‘C’(local Disk(C)).how to partition with out loosing original operating system and installed softwares.
    Please send me solution to my
    mail: [email protected]

  70. Firestar

    Thanks for sharing

  71. Jairam

    hi friend!!!
    thanks for your valuable info given over here. I have made partitions of C drive.
    Thank You

  72. nadeem

    AFTER COMPLETING THIS PROCESS I GOT A MESSAGE
    ” DYNAMIC DISKS ARE NOT SUPPORTED BY THIS OPERATING SYSTEM OR SERVER CONFIGRATION. DYNAMIC DISKS ARE NOT SUPPORTED ON CLUSTERS.”

    GIVE ME ADVISE AT

    [email protected]

    thanks

  73. Tanmay

    Nadeem: What is the file system of your drive? This only works with NTFS file system.

  74. JAWAD

    I already partition the disk. but i have one problem when i want to create a new simple volume. I am following same procedures as you but there dialog box saying that:-

    “the operation you selected will convert the selected basic disk to dynamic disk. if you convert the disk to dynamic, you will not be able to start installed operating systems from any volume on the disk (except the current boot volume). Are you sure you want to continue?”

    Then i click Yes to continue, but then there another box appear saying:-

    “Dynamic disks are not supported by the operating system or server configuration. Dynamic disks are not supported on clusters.”

    Can somebody tell me whether I have done something wrong? please help me..

    i have windows 7 home basic and my laptop is HP G62

  75. JAWAD

    PLS HELP FRIENDS…

  76. Tanmay

    Jawad: This process may not work in Windows 7 Home basic. Read at the last portion of this article. Sorry for the inconvenient.

  77. JAWAD

    boss then what should i do with this unallocated space of 100gb, can i merge it back to c: drive? pls help

    then how can i do partition on my c: drive, because HP created only a single drive, i want atleast two partitions, pls help..

    thanks

  78. Tanmay

    Just right-click on the mother drive from where you shrink the partition under Disk management and click on EXTEND VOLUME. You should see the available space when going through the wizard.

  79. JAWAD

    thank u so much boss, but please help me in partitioning this drive,

    • Tanmay

      Yes, I am trying to fix this issue for the other versions. I will get back shortly on this issue. Stay tuned.

  80. JAWAD

    thanks so much…

  81. jeevan

    Hello,

    Can you please let me know how to partition my C drive (300GB at Present) in my HP Mini Netbook, runs on Windows 7 starter OS.

    I followed the above explained procedure but did not work.

    Any revert is appreciated

  82. Anil Joshi

    its good ,,,,thanx……

  83. hide

    about the problem with
    ——
    “the operation you selected will convert the selected basic disk to dynamic disk. if you convert the disk to dynamic, you will not be able to start installed operating systems from any volume on the disk (except the current boot volume). Are you sure you want to continue?”

    “Dynamic disks are not supported by the operating system or server configuration. Dynamic disks are not supported on clusters.”
    ——

    I don’t know if you’ve already found the way to solve it or not, but I might just post it for those who still can’t find the solution then.

    Well the thing is Windows 7 Starter or Home Basic can’t have more than 4 disk drive. So you have to make sure your unallocated drive is not no.5. I had to merge move files from recovery drive somewhere else and merge it with the unallocated one. After that I just followed everything here and it worked like magic.

    Hope this helps.

  84. Tanmay

    @Hide: Nice solution man! I was thinking such logic. But frankly, I was not confirmed as i have not have the Windows 7 starter or home edition. Thanks for this solution and hope the readers will be benefited from here. Thanks again!

  85. JAWAD

    boss…pls help

    when i open computer management its shows disk 0 basic 298.09gb (and it shows 4 partitions i.e; SYSTEM 199MB NTFS, C: 281.58 GB NTFS,RECOVERY (D:) 16.22 GB NTFS, HP_TOOLS 103 FAT32..

    NOW HOW TO MERGE WATEVER U SAID AND HOW TO CREATE A PARTITION FROM C: DRIVE….PLS HELP

  86. Tanmay

    Read the comment of Hide. It may help you.

  87. JAWAD

    its not that clear, i did not understand it

  88. JAWAD

    i cannot attached the picture in this forum or message, otherwise i would have sent u an screen shot of the present position of my computer management

  89. Tanmay

    What is the version of your Windows 7. Is it Ultimate, Home or Starter?

  90. JAWAD

    its windows 7 home basic

  91. Tanmay

    In Windows 7 home you can not make partitions more that 4. So if you have 4 partition already, delete one then try to do this. Move your documents from the partition before deleting.

  92. Tanmay

    Jawad: you can mail me at tanmay[at]techtipsgeek[dot]com or use this link for uploading your pictures:
    http://www.techtipsgeek.com/go/up/

  93. JAWAD

    hey tanmay, first it made recovery dvd, then there was one partition as (HP_TOOLS with 103 mb only), without any assigning letter to it, so i delete that partition.

    then i created a partition giving it a letter F:, and it worked like a zoooommm…

    thanks man….u have been a great help, in future also i would contact u if i get any techincal problem, thanks a lot again…

    would like to know more abt u my friend, if u can give me u r personal mail…thanks so much again

  94. Tanmay

    already given

  95. srilekha

    thank u…

  96. Jason

    hey tanmay, any update on home prenium OS?

  97. john

    hai..i want to know,how to i delete partition in window 7?because i already make one partition but the partition cannot be use…can u help me sir to solve this problem??anybody

  98. ashok

    ur post was very useful for me. even i too tried this i have benifited. thank u so much

  99. Naren

    Excellent Guidance. Hats Off

  100. Daniel

    Most informative and simple tutorial Ive seen on the web in a while. Kudos for not being a kid in my computer class that thinks pirating games and watching porn at school is a form of computer hacking.

  101. ketan

    thank u very much its very useful….

  102. meenakshi

    i have partitioned according to this method but their is a problem in formatting the new unallotted drive,it show error”the operation you selected will convert the selected basic disk to dynamic disk”.”dynamic disks are not supported by this OS”.
    Pls give me the solution.I have 485 Gb C drive. i want it to partition it into three drives.

    model:hp_pavilondv3
    os:windows 7

  103. jitender

    thanks bro………

  104. rohit

    thanks bro give me reply i have to something more……………………

  105. Keverne

    Thanks alot, i managed to do it by myself following the instructions!

  106. shivam

    thanx for helping

  107. Prakash Bhusal

    ooohhhhhhhh!!!
    Its gareat for me. It was like Magic and no need of other for partition. No words to express Happy. Thanx alot

  108. Rachit Gandhi

    I want to partition of c: so, I tried about method.I have successfully completed shrinkage of c:.But i cant converted allocated space in another new drive.so can you help me about this?please

  109. Reka

    Thanx a lot:D…

  110. Rachit Gandhi

    most welcome my dear

  111. Swagnik

    Hey thnx for the great guide. I have a dell laptop and 320 GB local C disk. it was not partitioned from before. i have a lot of important data on my laptop which i cannot risk losing. is it absolutely safe to create a partition using this feature? will it create no problems at all? if so then i can go ahead and create a partition.

  112. Tanmay

    Absolutely It is safe. Make sure you are using Windows 7 Ultimate before applying this. If you are using the Windows 7 Starter then follow this: http://www.techtipsgeek.com/partition-hard-drive-in-windows-7-starter-without-formatting/13309/

  113. Swagnik

    Hey thnx actually I successfully made the partition. But I have a new problem. Like I said I had all my data in local C. So i shrunk the volume by the available 96 GB and created a partition of the same size. Then i transferred my personal data to the new drive. Which was about 90 GB. Now I cant shrink my local C any further. There is 104 GB free space but yet when I try to shrink it, it shows 0 MB available shrinking space. I dont know what to do. If this does not work out the new partition is a complete waste. Please help!

  114. tafsir

    hi
    thanks very nice idea…

  115. how can i extend my c drive upto 100 gb cause it’s only have 30 gb when i brought it….please it’s inportant..

  116. rajat

    hey very nice nd intelligent information but i have a doubt….
    I m using hp laptop with home basic….referring to the backup of hp tools that Hide mentioned, which folder of’Hewlett Packard’ should be copied, the one from ‘program files’ or that from ‘profram files(x86)’…..plz reply….
    Also does it mean only one disk can be created after shrinkin c:

  117. Tanmay

    Nope! You can create total 4 partitions.

  118. rajat

    and what is the answer to the previous question….the ‘hewlettt packard’ folder

  119. rajat

    where do i find the HP_TOOLS drive in hp dv6

  120. Tanmay

    follow this: http://www.techtipsgeek.com/partition-hard-drive-in-windows-7-starter-without-formatting/13309/

  121. Eri

    Hello Tanmay
    I have a laptop with only one partition in it. the C: one. I want to add a second partition without losing my data… can I do this? I am using Windows 7 Honme Premium

  122. Tanmay

    Eri: Follow this http://www.techtipsgeek.com/partition-hard-drive-in-windows-7-starter-without-formatting/13309/

  123. Eri

    My prob is that I can’t make an unallocated space bigger than 15 MB yes Megabytes(!)
    pls help…

  124. Tanmay

    How much space is available in your drive right now?

  125. Eri

    397 GB out of 452 GB total

  126. Tanmay

    Eri: Sorry for the hesitation. Then you should follow the previous topic I suggested.

  127. Eri

    I did. But at the step 4.O it wouldn’t allow me to put a higher value than 15 (of MegaBytes)…

    • Tanmay

      Can you perform a disk defragment first?

  128. Eri

    I’ll try it now

  129. Eri

    Hey Tanmay. Sorry for the latency… However I couldn’t create a bigger partition more than 15 MB even after defragmenting… so I backed up my data and formatted the C: drive … and that solved the problem. However a big “thank you” to you for answering really fast!
    Bye

  130. Suresh

    Thanks… It worked perfect in Win 7 professional too :)

  131. Haseeb

    Thank you very much it was very useful

  132. Rahul

    i can shrik but cant expand that free space on another drive . what to do ?

  133. Abhishek

    it is the easiest method i have read…

  134. Engr. ibrar

    thanks alot for sharing.

  135. vipul jain

    thia is not worked on window 7 home basic 64-bit version
    so pls ensure your window version before apply it

  136. sam

    thanks!I sucessfully partioned my drive without formatting it.

  137. Indra

    thank you very much for the tips.

  138. Makarand

    Thank you i really need this

  139. sajid

    I m getting an error message that windows cannot create a new partition.I hve already perform these steps the actual size is being reduced from my c drive but i cannot see the newer partition.
    my c drive is 400gb and it now shows only 200gb.
    what should i do

  140. Tanmay

    are you using windows 7 starter pack?

  141. sajid

    hi sir, i m using windows 7 home premium edition, recently i brought lenovo z560 laptop it has 400gb partition in c drive and 30 gb in d drive.i have tried all the procedures and cannot find the solution.
    the disk size has been reduced from the c but the another partition cannot be seen.What should i do???? i hve 3 laptops to do these

  142. sajid

    the drive that i created is unallocated and i cannot delete it. i m using windows 7 home premium edition. the c drive is reduced by 200gb and i cannot see in computer

  143. Tanmay

    If you are using Home premium the tutorial won’t work.

    Recovery:
    Right click on the partition from where you shrinked.Then click on Extend. Hope this will solve the problem.

  144. sandy

    Sir this is a brilliant way of getting thought. Thank You very much

  145. sajid

    there is no option for extend,from the drive which i shrinked.i downloaded easeus partition manager and the entire search criteria could not determined the unallocated space. what should i do

  146. sajid

    Hi Tanmay, i can’t find any solution for these.

  147. sangam

    After seeing dheeraj, ishwinder followed by tanmay comment, i repartitioned the root drive using Gparted to shrink it to 50GB, then i left with 230 GB free space :-)

  148. sangam

    left with ~235 GB free space

  149. Thank you so much for this brilliant how-to: it just took me all of 5 minutes to partition an external hard drive using your clear, easy-to-follow instructions. Bravo! :-) Jay

  150. pogz

    thank you so much. it’s a big help for me..

  151. soham

    hey…m still facing d problem abt dynamic disks…and as Hide said my new partition is disk no 5…so plz help wat can be done wd it…m having 640 gb hard disk…with 15 gb recovery…190 mb system…and so on…can any 1 plz help…

  152. samuel

    thanks….
    it was of gr8 help….
    i m using windows 7 home premium an it worked fine for me…

  153. anoop

    hi i have new hp pavilion d6 laptop and os is w7 home basic and i tried with above procedure and created a drive but its unallocated and whenever i try to create new volume it shows the error that cant convert to dynamic flash drive …..help please

    thanks in advance..

  154. Tanmay

    Anoop: Give this a try: http://www.techtipsgeek.com/partition-hard-drive-in-windows-7-starter-without-formatting/13309/

  155. sHEIK

    Thanks good one……….

  156. ARVIND

    THAT IS VERY HELPING FOR DEVIDE THE DRIVE……..
    THANX……

  157. karthikeyan

    Nice… Thank you very much.. This is very helpful for me and to all… I will help to my friends for this tip…

  158. Atif Hayat

    I want to increase the size of my F drive … and shrink from D drive … Both drives have important data … Dont want to format anyone of them … so what should i need to do ??? is there any use full solution for me to increase the size of F drive shrinking from D drive ???
    Waiting for your response …

  159. dhaval and jay

    hi there,
    thanks for your kind information about partition and i want to add that it also works in windows 7 home premium…i got solution by your method.so thanks again.

  160. Rajkumar

    Thanks tanmay for this easy procedure providing for us.thanks once again…

  161. gaurav

    thanks friend …IT really work..!!..(..

  162. Priyesh

    My Hard disc is crashed when i followed above description to partition my Hard disc.Now, it will not show boot screen it will just show only Intel Pentium 4 Is my hard disc crashed or show other problem is appeared so, guys can u help me?

  163. Preeti Patel

    Hi, I bought one new laptop SONY VAIO and HD space is 320 GB though it is showing only 284GB with only one drive C. I want to make another 2 partition without formatting my laptop and OS is Windows 7 Home Premium. Will this method help me to solve my problem?

  164. santhosh

    very very thank u sir

  165. JUNED

    thanxxxx buddy…

  166. bharath

    thank you sir
    pls send all shortcuts and new things to my mail

  167. bharath

    hello Preeti Patel,this will apply to your laptop also i think…

  168. Ankith

    Thnx bro…….

  169. Thank you so much… From Mongolian

  170. Sharon

    Thanks a lot.

  171. abdul hapes mohammed

    tq..these walk through is really really helping and useful

  172. Lerner:)

    Hi Tanmay, I found this sight when i was goggling how to divide hard drive,and as i read most of the commenttaters hear are for the same reason and I also want to divide A 320G.B drive c hard disk on Packard Bell Note book, and I will post my results after doing so,just want to thank in advance for finding the Info.

  173. sudeepta

    It is really easy and helpful.

  174. Erwin

    hello………..
    I am using windows 7 OS .I have a problem that a have only one Drive i.e ‘C’(local Disk(C)).I want to have on or more drive to manage my files… how to partition with out loosing original operating system and installed software.

  175. Aparajit

    Thanks, It worked 100% efficiently for my Genuine Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit.

    Regards,
    Aparajit
    India.

  176. Kush

    Thanks a lot man :-) it worked like a Magic

  177. chirag

    Its really good it works for me really .. thanks a lot

  178. aditya

    it’s mentioned that the above process does not work fine in windows 7 premium can i know what kind of problems are encountered if done from readers feed back please because i have done it to my premium and i think it is working fine

  179. Abdalla Osman

    100% sure you are professional of Comp, thanks

  180. Sunitha

    It is very helpful for partition with out formatting….thanks alot

  181. Robin

    Thanks. Very nice written and very helpful

  182. mariam

    very helpfull
    hats off nd big kiss 10qs

  183. tarun

    i have partitioned according to this method but their is a problem in formatting the new unallotted drive,it show error”the operation you selected will convert the selected basic disk to dynamic disk”.”dynamic disks are not supported by this OS”

  184. harish

    Hai Friends,

    My Brother had me new lappy(Sony Vaio) as a gift for my birthday and the space on the disk is 640Gb,Windows 7,i5 processor.The total disk was allocated in to one disk only and when i read this article i made changes accordingly and for the first time i made a disk of 150Gb and for the next time it showing that more than 3 disks cannot be made..Help me Plz..(or) let me know how to shrink back the partitioned volume,so that i can allocate required space to windows files and keep rest of the space seperately so that the entire system may not be effected..Thank you Guys..Great Job..

  185. Windows Disk Management

    According to my practice, there are some restrictions on Windows Disk Management, such as Create Partition, Extend Volume and Shrink Volume.

    Take Windows 7 for example:

    Create Partition: When creating partition, you cannot decide the partition type. After creating three primary partition, the forth will be automatically created as extended partition. In such case, you cannot shrink C drive to create new partition, you will receive error message: you cannot create a new volume in this unallocated space because the disk already contains maximum number of partitions.

    Shrink Volume: 1. you cannot decrease the allocated space beyond the point where the unmovable files are located. 2.the unallocated (shrunk from primary partition) or free space (shrunk from logical drive) only can be created at the end of the partition. This restriction will limit “Extend Volume” feature.

    Extend Volume: This function only can extend partition into contiguous unallocated space which is at the right side of the partition (behind the partition).

    The Advanced Windows 7 Disk Management can avoid the above restrictions. Learn more please visit:
    http://www.partition-magic-windows7.com/res/disk-management-windows-7.html

  186. Abhishek Shandilya

    extremely helpful article……….worked smoothly for me….windows 7 premium……thanks a lot

  187. santhosh

    First time i partitioned the Hard Drive !!!
    Thanks Alot buddy!!!
    Keep up the Good Work!!

    Help All

  188. hari

    it says that i have not enough memory to create a volume but i had 65 GB of free space

  189. Hi there Tanmay, I’m using Windows 7 and have partitioned my hard drive using your very valuable instructions for which I thank you so much. Unfortunately I partitioned the new data drive at a smaller size than I should have (1000G hard drive split to roughly 500G each drive) and would like to undo the partitioning and start again. I wonder if you can advise me as to how I can do that please. Thank you in anticipation, Dave.

  190. nagireddy

    Hi,

    i am using windows 7. By using above said procedre i did not make partititon my c drive.

    i have entered the new drive size. but Shrink option is deactivated.

    please assist me

  191. Shaikna

    its working…good to know new technique…plz keep posting in many more techs regarding Win 7 and any other…

  192. rizza

    hi

    is this applicable for windows 7 starter? i just bought my netbook laptop few weeks ago, it only has 1 disk (C:) with 139GB.. can i create a partition/disk (D:) without formatting? it would really help,please reply

  193. Tanmay

    Rizza:
    Visit here: http://www.techtipsgeek.com/partition-hard-drive-in-windows-7-starter-without-formatting/13309/

  194. Pravin mudliar Nagpur 9850101031

    already partition the disk. but i have one problem when i want to create a new simple volume. I am following same procedures as you but there dialog box saying that:-

    “the operation you selected will convert the selected basic disk to dynamic disk. if you convert the disk to dynamic, you will not be able to start installed operating systems from any volume on the disk (except the current boot volume). Are you sure you want to continue?”

    Then i click Yes to continue, but then there another box appear saying:-

    “Dynamic disks are not supported by the operating system or server configuration. Dynamic disks are not supported on clusters.”

    Can somebody tell me whether I have done something wrong? please help me..

    i have windows 7 home basic and my laptop is HP G62

    SOLUTION:Right click my computer click manage then click disk manager then delete hp tools,then complete the other as mentioned above.

  195. Jyoti

    please help me i want to create partitions of disc c: and i got the same problem of dynamic disk
    also i want to know how to create recovery disk
    do i have to cpy the recovery drive contents to dvd and then merge it to the unallocated space
    and then proceed with the steps you told
    please help

  196. Mahendra Rana

    Thank you very much for valuable informations.

  197. Michelle

    Hi…will this work on Windows 7 Home Basic, too? My system is HP Pavillion DM1-3014 notebook. It had only 2 drives (C and another for recovery – ‘D’ drive). I want more partitions for saving important files. Is this a safe method? Will i lose any data/installed progs/files during the process?

  198. Martin

    Good information to know, quick easy and painless. NOTE If you are creating a patition for a duel boot (such as a Linux distro) try leaving the space unpartitioned as free space. I ended up with some fragments I need to cleanup.

  199. Rizza

    i have successfully created a new partition, thank you tanmay..

  200. jackie

    hope it works …might have a try ….thanks

  201. Lomas

    Thank u very much….You have healed my trouble..

  202. ramana

    I already partition the disk. but i have one problem when i want to create a new simple volume. I am following same procedures as you but there dialog box saying that:-

    “the operation you selected will convert the selected basic disk to dynamic disk. if you convert the disk to dynamic, you will not be able to start installed operating systems from any volume on the disk (except the current boot volume). Are you sure you want to continue?”

    Then i click Yes to continue, but then there another box appear saying:-

    “Dynamic disks are not supported by the operating system or server configuration. Dynamic disks are not supported on clusters.”

    Can somebody tell me whether I have done something wrong? please help me

  203. ramana

    I already partition the disk. but i have one problem when i want to create a new simple volume. I am following same procedures as you but there dialog box saying that:-

    “the operation you selected will convert the selected basic disk to dynamic disk. if you convert the disk to dynamic, you will not be able to start installed operating systems from any volume on the disk (except the current boot volume). Are you sure you want to continue?”

    Then i click Yes to continue, but then there another box appear saying:-

    “Dynamic disks are not supported by the operating system or server configuration. Dynamic disks are not supported on clusters.”

    Can somebody tell me whether I have done something wrong? please help me
    i cannot load my operating system plz help my.send a solution to [email protected]

  204. harshit sharma

    thanx man this was really very usefull for me it took me somuch time to figure out how to format it but through this it became very easy for me
    thankyou so much for your help …
    :-}:-}:-}:-}:-}

  205. hi,
    i done do my partition..thankx so much..ur info really helping me..

  206. Nagesh

    Hi i have some problem in opening cmd,taskmanager,manage,etc..
    if i try to open manage is shows an error message as “This file does not have a program associated with it for performing this action. please install a program or, if one is already installed, create an association in the default programs control panel”

    and if i try to open cmd it shows an mess as
    “Windows cannot find ‘C:WindowsSystem32cmd.exe’”
    Can some one help me……………………..

  207. saranya

    can any one tell me how to use turbo-c in win 7 and 64 bit processor

  208. Tanmay

    @Saranya: Go to this page: http://pradeepkumar.org/2010/08/c-compiler-for-windows-7-64bit-operating-systems.html

  209. ricky

    appreciated…good keep it up

  210. rakesh

    thanxs man!!! sucessfully worked…

  211. drharmesh

    really superb…..awsome work…solved my problem…thanks buddy.

  212. sudhakar reddy

    hii,sir i fallowed same procedure and i did i partation..and i tried for another partition but i loss 100gb ..it shows its unalocated storage..how to gain that space ..i fallowed same procedure above u lold ..but its not workout please sujjest me how to gain that space???

  213. sorabh

    hi, i had recently purchased a DELL XPS i502X….it has 750 gb HDD,6 gb ram,i5 2.3 gh…it comes with single c drive only..& also it is preloaded with windows 7 home premium 64 bit….my laptop is fully empty right now..
    i want to shrink my c drive to 100gb..
    can i do so??
    is the procedure explained above works with my config…
    if procedure fails what r the impacts??
    pls tell me…!!

  214. KiCHU

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  215. fatim

    thanksss a lot. It helps :D

  216. viraj

    thankyou very much

  217. nanda

    i already part the disk. but i have one problem when i want to create a new simple volume.
    i am following same procedures as you but there dialog box saying that:-
    “the operation you selected will convert the selected basic disk to dynamic disk. if you convert the disk to dynamic, you will not be able to start installed operating systems from any volume on the disk (except the current boot volue). Are you sure you want to continue?”
    after i click finish on box.
    Then i click Yes to continue, but then there another box appear saying:-
    “Dynamic disks are not supported by thi operating system or server configuration. Dynamic disks are not supported on clusters.”
    Which part i missing? n how to solve this? Can you help me..?
    FYI,
    My OS windows 7 starter.
    Using HP Mini 110-3100(netbook)
    stystem type 32bit
    Intel Atom 1.83GHz

    please plz plz help me

  218. Anil

    It’s great. I did so and it amazing. before I was worried that I need to format everything but it make the task very easier pls try this.

  219. John

    Thank you for making it simple, and easy to understand. John

  220. prabusai

    its working..thanks to all..really happy this is the first time am doing this!!

  221. Venkat

    I tried using partition software and ended up loosing all my data. And then I checked it here and its so easy and simple. I’m using Windows 7 Home Premium and it worked great for me. Thanks a lot Tanmay.

  222. larry

    it works! just did it on my HP pavilion dm4 n it works like a charm! awesome!

  223. Harish

    thanks for giving understandable format

  224. Rabban Ahamd

    Yeah really it’s fantastic method to partitioning the hard drive……..

  225. SANTOSH MAHARANA

    really it’s Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  226. suresh

    sir,
    i don’t know how to partition without formatting this site is very useful
    thank you sir
    suresh

  227. pRIYARANJAN

    Hey its realy awesome…..
    Thnx for this

  228. manoranjan

    nice share it’s really a helpful thing for all computer users thanx

  229. adasd

    Thanks a lot! u just saved another 24hrs of formatting & re-downloading everything. i only wish i found this page sooner to save me all of last night’s trouble.

  230. Hardik

    Thank you so much Author. It just like my dream come true… :))))

  231. jagx

    Thanks Tanmay… hat’s off to you

  232. Lalit Kunwar

    Hello sir ,
    Goodevening.I have now new laptop from dell vostro . I have some problem pls help me. problem as when iwas run new windows that time i show c drive 465 GB but they write 500 GB and I was search and I was found there is a partation drive D but thats drive was deney or not working SO Now i knew my computer had problem for the partation so how to recover my loss GB Can you healp me pls.Thank you very much for you help.lalit kunwar

  233. CHANDAN

    THANX A LOT FOR THIS VALUABLE INFORMATION

  234. Juwon

    …Unfortunately, I’ve tried d above steps on formatting win7 HD before I realized it wont work for win7 home basic. It has left my hard disk wit a crash dump as its property. Is my HD still in gd cond. & Can ds be rectified? Tnx.

  235. Dr K.A.Sharma

    r/sir very vary thanks for ur precious guidence , i done the partition as per ur guidence in my toshiba laptop preloaded
    windows-7 Homepremium. it is vary easy.
    i want to told u that this method works in windows 7 home premium.
    I doesn’t have any software of my laptop it was preloaded u.s. version Toshiba-L655 s5158.

  236. Rajendra

    Rajendra

    made so easy.Thank u very much.

  237. manikam

    it was useful…..but nearly i got 50gb missing…..can any one help in this case

  238. I’m using windows Home Premium .I used this partition technique .Aftern that i came to know that my HD is already partitioned into 4 parts and i tried divide it into 5 th part.so it is nt partitioned and the space became unallocated space.how can i use that unallocated space .
    plz mail me about thi…..

  239. lalit

    Thank you sir i was partation my hd im very glad to you. its very easy to made but we need to learn about new new thinks.yea yiu are great.

  240. Hardik

    Thanks… It worked. it’s easy way and fast too. Really helpful. Thanks once again/

  241. 1. i already part the disk. but i have one problem when i want to create a new simple volume.
    i am following same procedures as you but there dialog box saying that:-
    “the operation you selected will convert the selected basic disk to dynamic disk. if you convert the disk to dynamic, you will not be able to start installed operating systems from any volume on the disk (except the current boot volue). Are you sure you want to continue?”
    after i click finish on box.
    Then i click Yes to continue, but then there another box appear saying:-
    “Dynamic disks are not supported by thi operating system or server configuration. Dynamic disks are not supported on clusters.”
    Which part i missing? n how to solve this? Can you help me..?

  242. “Dynamic disks are not supported by thi operating system or server configuration. Dynamic disks are not supported on clusters.”
    Which part i missing? n how to solve this? Can you help me..?

  243. parshant

    i have 160 gb hdd of wd in my laptop.i have problem in partation of hdd.i had formatted it.but it shows only 149 gb and when i again make partition then it takes only 152626 mb of 1st part.it is not take more then it and it shows
    the size must be at most 152626 mb
    what should i do ??
    plz tell me
    i want 3 part 20gb, 25 gb, & remains

    my e-mail id
    [email protected]

  244. Jagruti

    i have made partition using this method but that new drive does not come in My computer. It comes in a c drive of my computer…please tanmay help me for this…..

  245. aryan

    thank s a lot…………….

  246. yashwanth

    Thanks a Lot Bro.

  247. sagarmp3

    thanx a lot for such kind of info…

  248. kid

    got it done :) thanx a lot :)

  249. thanx a lot…..
    i was having plenty of disk space…(1 TB)
    but just a single drive….
    now i am haiving 4 drives….

  250. Rans

    Thanks for this, it’s very true, I tried on the Window 7 Home premium it never worked, is there a way I can do the portioning successfully without formatting? Thanks and am most grateful..

  251. arjun

    thank you for providing the useful information

    hope we will get more useful than this n keep it up

    again many many thank you

  252. Taru

    Thanks.I never knew it was so easy to create disc parttion.

  253. Prakash

    Thanks .. the inputs are very useful

  254. Ignas

    does work in Win7 Home Premium. perfectly. useful guide

  255. manish

    thank you so much it really helped alot & solved everything w/o hassle thanks a ton

  256. vinay

    Thanks….. it’s amazing bro…… thanks alot

  257. Satish

    Hey!, Thanks a lot. Its saved me from re-installing. Good one!

  258. G.P

    hey i have a question,i accidentally converted my primary disk slave into a dynamic drive which turned it a RAW. how can revert it to NTFS without formating my slave?thanks in advance.

  259. vipul

    when i do the above mention process it doesnt shw me the available it just only shows “Querying volume for available shrink space, please wait …” afetr tht it doesnt respond … how to solve this issue

    win7 home premium 64 bit 500 gb hd vaio

  260. hi its really eassy method i became happy with this process.

  261. Muchisimas gracias! Muy util.

  262. hi
    i have used disk management console
    my c: is 471 gb
    d: is 29 gb backup

    and changed the partition set active of c:

    then the d: got dis appeared from my computer and if i try to format is giving error

    please give a solution

  263. vijjay

    hey,

    im facing a problem of “Dynamic disks are not supported by thi operating system or server configuration. Dynamic disks are not supported on clusters”

    Can you please suggest me how to merge and create the partition..

  264. gaurav

    hey,
    thanks,for information i despirately needed this

  265. jamil

    hi friends please help me.

    i bought new hp g6 laptop, there is two partitions one is c: and other one is d: drive there is recovery and i don’t want to keep my data in c: drive how i can make one more drive to keep my data there. is there any way to make another drive in windows7 home without formatting.

  266. dfsfdsf

    it was the first nice thing i saw it in windows os

  267. Siva

    I need to partition my new sory vio laptop, I heve only C drive with me please let me know how to get the D drive and E drive add on my laptop, I jus want 100 gp in C drive , 80gp in D drive & 80 in E drive. please help me

  268. Sanchita

    can i partition my c drive. as i have only c in my laptop. I m hesitating in partitioning it. please help.

  269. vamshi

    i already part the disk. but i have one problem when i want to create a new simple volume.
    i am following same procedures as you but there dialog box saying that:-
    “the operation you selected will convert the selected basic disk to dynamic disk. if you convert the disk to dynamic, you will not be able to start installed operating systems from any volume on the disk (except the current boot volue). Are you sure you want to continue?”
    after i click finish on box.
    Then i click Yes to continue, but then there another box appear saying:-
    “Dynamic disks are not supported by thi operating system or server configuration. Dynamic disks are not supported on clusters.”
    Which part i missing? n how to solve this? Can you help me..?

  270. Thanks..

    It was really very helpful. You solved my big headache…A Big thanks for your Great and amazing tip………

  271. Bikash

    I already part the disk. but i have one problem when i want to create a new simple volume.
    i am following same procedures as you but there dialog box saying that:-
    “the operation you selected will convert the selected basic disk to dynamic disk. if you convert the disk to dynamic, you will not be able to start installed operating systems from any volume on the disk (except the current boot volue). Are you sure you want to continue?”
    after i click finish on box.
    Then i click Yes to continue, but then there another box appear saying:-
    “Dynamic disks are not supported by thi operating system or server configuration. Dynamic disks are not supported on clusters.”
    Which part i missing? n how to solve this? Can you help me..?

    Information about my system:
    windows7 Home basic, 64 bit
    500GB hard disk

  272. Nirmaan

    This Is Great!!!@!!!!!!

  273. alex jones

    This thing does not work. It does not divide the disk the way they should be. I have 160 gb hard disk and only C drive 32 gb free but I could only have a new drive of 1.71 gb and i still have 30 gb free in the C drive. I could not transfer this space of 30 gb to the new disk that I created. This method sucks! I am very disappointed!

  274. joel

    It’s helpful. And thanx for guide ! :)

  275. dx

    thank u very much sir!!

  276. Ansh

    Very easy and Excellent way .
    thanks

  277. praveen

    thanks its really helpful

  278. Umesh

    i hav unallocated some disk space from D: drive as mentioned here. but how do i add that disk space in drive C: . plz help.

  279. vinie

    This was real of great help.
    Thanks for sharing

  280. aryan

    not able to have recovrey of my windiws 7 home premium after this partation.. pls help me

  281. Sahil Gupta

    What to be do to add space to already created partition.Suppose I had create a new volume/partition using this above concept but I want to allocate this newly created memory to any partition like splitting from 1 partition & merging to any partition like c:,D: or any other drive..then what is the procedure to do it..If I want to add this newly created partiotion without formatting but want to add this newly created space to C: then what is the procedure to do it…Plz help……

  282. Sang

    the procedure does not work fine in the other versions of Windows 7 like Home Premium etc?????

    is that true? Its working fine with me though. I am using Home Premium and the partition is done as you have instructed. It worked bro!

  283. chandni

    its really awesome. very helpful. thank u sooo much

  284. ashish

    i know part-ion. but provides a great information for window 7 users. really likes to user.

  285. Hi,

    I have windows 7 setup files but I want to make it bootable so please guide me how to make it bootable…

    Thanks,
    Jagdeo

  286. nomi

    when i opend disk managmnt their wasn’t any disk displayd

  287. jyothi

    i am using windows 7 home premium, i have two drives c-250gb and d- 30 gb….i follwed ur steps for partition….but the new vol was not created….but the shrinked vol s in unlocated space…pls give solution for this…

  288. karthik

    useful info…. thank u…

  289. rakesh reddy

    hi

    when i installed windows 7 in my pc, unfortunatly i forgot to create partition.. so here 100gb is been wasted. so with ur helpfull tips i tried to create the partition for that 100gb of memory. here when i’m about to finish, fianlly i got an error message “sorry u dont have enough space on disk(s) to perform this action”..

    please help me out..

    thnq in advance

  290. Manish

    Thank you friends…

  291. joby Jose

    its really working and it was very helpful for me. thanks a lot
    hope u will keep post new techniques like this

  292. Nagaveni

    This website made me learn n do something new. Now i m able to partition drives on my own without anybody’s help.
    Thank you so much.

  293. vikas

    Excellent information,saves a lot of time.

  294. katta

    i bought a new laptop , my C drive is having 580gb, how can i partition the drive, i am using the above method but its not working for me, i am using windows7 home basic, plz let me know the suggestions

  295. nitish jha

    i have windows7 home basic. i want to do data recovery back up and also partion and having 320GB hard drive.

  296. RANVIR

    is it possible to partation c drive where program file installed …by this usefull methode

  297. Srinivas

    Hi, Well I bought My Sony VAIO Laptop It had inbuilt softwares and window 7.It has only C drive I want to partition my drive without losing any of my data and even without formating.
    Can this method help me do so? As I do not have any Back Up neither of the window and softwares not even of my data.

  298. sikaz

    nice one!works great!

  299. SAnjay

    Fantastic….This works

  300. lalit

    Hello sir and friend how are you? i was so tired because i have dell laptop and windows 7 home 32 bit but my Internet something crack so i want to re install from windows 7 disk but they gave me windows 7 professional 64 disk but they write yours computer already install and use rot re install this disk write inside the disk can i install from that disk but 1 time i try and came message no same version so how to install or can i use 64 version also pls send me message or reply me pls. thank you for [email protected]

  301. Bala Murali Krishna

    Thank Q Tanmay, it is very useful for me… thanks alot

  302. sdfsd

    thanks

  303. Mohamed

    Thank you very much, this one is life saving tip.

  304. shravani

    tq alot……….itz very useful tq 4 sharing

  305. Smruti

    Thanx………..It works….

  306. Abhay

    I already part the disk. but i have one problem when i want to create a new simple volume.
    i am following same procedures as you but there dialog box saying that:-
    “the operation you selected will convert the selected basic disk to dynamic disk. if you convert the disk to dynamic, you will not be able to start installed operating systems from any volume on the disk (except the current boot volue). Are you sure you want to continue?”
    after i click finish on box.
    Then i click Yes to continue, but then there another box appear saying:-
    “Dynamic disks are not supported by thi operating system or server configuration. Dynamic disks are not supported on clusters.”
    i still clicked ok now as i restarted i was not able to boot into my system
    Information about my system:
    windows7 Home basic, 64 bit
    500GB hard disk

    plz help
    plz reply

  307. Abhay

    I already part the disk. but i have one problem when i want to create a new simple volume.
    i am following same procedures as you but there dialog box saying that:-
    “the operation you selected will convert the selected basic disk to dynamic disk. if you convert the disk to dynamic, you will not be able to start installed operating systems from any volume on the disk (except the current boot volue). Are you sure you want to continue?”
    after i click finish on box.
    Then i click Yes to continue, but then there another box appear saying:-
    “Dynamic disks are not supported by thi operating system or server configuration. Dynamic disks are not supported on clusters.”
    i still clicked ok now as i restarted i was not able to boot into my system
    Information about my system:
    windows7 ultimate, 64 bit
    500GB hard disk

    plz help
    plz reply

  308. babu

    Very helpful. Tnx bro :)

  309. Atif Noor

    Thanks dear really it work , you save my time and data

    Regards
    Atif Noor
    00971559090475

  310. Saambs

    It realy works
    Thanks

  311. thnks for urs help…….

  312. Sanket

    Hi
    I have tried the steps but i am not able to partition my disk.
    I am using win7 after the last step I am getting error msg as “Dynamic disks are not supported by this OS or server configuration. Dynamic disks are not supported on clusters”.
    Could you please help.

  313. hii
    i m using windows 7 home basic, 450gb hd.
    i have done with my 1 partition but when i m tryin for another partition the error comes that the drive contains number of partition.so how to solve this problems.
    help me…

  314. Dhruv

    I am using w 7 home so it is possible to convert 320 gb drive in to different drives?

  315. dhruv

    hi in my laptop there are three drive.c drive is 275gb i want to dividing it in to 4 drive i am using windows 7 homeprimium it is possible please reply me?

  316. Midhun Anand

    Really healpful

  317. Midhun Anand

    Its really helpful.

  318. Amber Thompson

    Does Microsoft, guarantee that your data will be safe.

  319. rajendra singh

    it was a very useful thing it is also aplicable on window 7 hoce basic and from this we make maximum 4 partirion…….

  320. sagar

    nice one…….

  321. karthi

    waste of time to to see this………

  322. anuj

    great tips sir. the way you explained it is very much nice ,every one can understand it very easily.

  323. Areeb

    THanxxxxxxxxx

  324. VickyLi

    very nice guideline! thank you very much :)

  325. anwar

    in my system having only c drive.. how to make partition

  326. azrul

    thank you.. its really helpful with easy steps to follow..hope can see more tips

  327. cherry

    Thank You!!!It works perfect :)

  328. Nik

    Thamks alot worked as a beauty, i had my pc custom made and was stressing on that fact that it only came with a single volume as i prefer to have all my data stored on a different partition than windows just in case of viruses…. and i think its wise to install all hanky panky softwares on a diff. one …….happy to have achieved this without formatting :)

  329. asaomo

    thanx,am glad for your help.very useful and educative!!!

  330. wow, this is the best tutorial for hard drive partitioning! it’s really great! more power!

  331. farid

    i have not partition of c drive
    i want to partition without formatting of c drive,plz
    help me.

  332. Mohamed

    //Farid// follow the above steps.

  333. Mohamed

    //Anwar// follow the above steps

  334. Abhishek

    they are converted into dynamic and now window 7 did not boot what to do ??????????????????????????????????

  335. Taleh

    Thx, it is enough clear explained and simple operation.

  336. jyoti

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  337. Tapen jangid

    send me more informations regarding to the partition

  338. Robert

    I can only shrink up to and including 283 mb and i have a 149 gb hard drive over 100 gb free and iv already defragges it, done a disk check and a ccleaner AND fixed registry. Help?

    (Plz reply to my email: [email protected] because i will forget this site DO NOT REPLY HERE PLZ REPLY IN EMAIL!!!!!!1)

  339. Robert

    UPDATE:

    I am using Windows 7 ultimate 32-bit

  340. Robert

    *defragges is meant to be defragmented

  341. prateek

    Tt’s really goood and very easy

  342. Nanda

    hi…really fantastic job.
    before reading this article i’m totally worried about partion in my laptop. this is very useful.

  343. thnx a lot , just created a new drive of 100 gb ….:)

  344. arun

    I was not able to take my recovery disk some error occured when the process was goning on , now i need my hard disk partition? Is this shrinking method is the only solution or can i use some software to do the partition.
    Incase is shrinking is done will the system be slow?

  345. Tanmay

    Arun: When you can do any job without a software then why you will depend on a third party. This method is pretty well and reliable.

  346. Bia

    very helpful indeed :))

  347. Gowtham

    Hi, My lap model is Dell Inspiron n 5010 . I have formatted my disk in past month. My disk space is 320 GB. But it shows only 200 GB when windows is logged on. I was currently using windows 7(64-Bit). Please guide me.

  348. arun

    i have a hp lap got it only a week ago,if i use the system for few hours or install some software a new colon Q gets opened which is access denied.if we restart the system the colon will get closed. why is this problem occuring?

  349. David G

    I did all this on my HP DV6 laptop (Win7 64bit OEM) and added two new partitions. After the procedure, everything went as planned. Disk Manager recognized that HP had grabbed the maximum (4) primary partitions suported by the MBR system and automatically changed to the Dynamic Disk system. It went fine for 6 months. Then I had a crash on the C:disk and found my home-made restore disks would not boot. HP supplied a factory-made set of restore disks and these would’nt boot either.

    I had to send the computer to an HP authorized agent for “reimaging” but in fact they replaced the disk. I am about to buy a USB backup disk as suggested.

    I have a bitter taste in my mouth because I suspect this elaborate disk setup is to guarantee future work for HP agents.

    All this was covered by the warranty but because of HP’s high prices for both parts and labour, if I have futere troubles, it may prove cheaper in the long run to buy & install a retail copy of Windows 7.

  350. Jimbo-oz

    This app worked perfectly as detailed in the clear instructions and I was extremely happy to see it conclude quickly and fuss-free.  My 2TB C: drive became a 1+TB C: and a 800GB M: drive.
    I was then able to transfer ALL my data from a folder on C: tot he new M: without a drama.
    This morning however, when turning the beast back on….no M: yet C: has been shrunk and works fine and Disk Management sees the partition byt the only option available to me is “Delete”.  What the..?  It was done under Win7 Pro 64-bit on a ASUS board and i7 chipset…… Any ideas folks…..this now has ALL my current and historical data buried within it with only incomplete backups and my immediate current work not backed up.  I should have copied the data across rather than Move but hey…it all seemed perfect.  Help please!

  351. Ghayoor

    I have windows 7 home basic installed on hp pavilion g4 notebook pc laptop, i had 4 partitions in my hard disk 3 named and one un-named, designated, system, OS, Recovery and HP tools. I tried to develop another partition and creadted but failed to format.
    The windows popup and displayes ” the operation you selected will convert the selected disk(s). If you convert the disk(s) to dynamic, you will not be able to start installed operating systems from any volume on the disk(s)(except the current boot volume). Are you sure you want to continue?

    I did both yes or no but failed. What to do to convert that partition as such this partition is not visible in my computer except in computer management. please help.

  352. Reds

    good one

  353. Whizsumukh

    I tried it,but after selecting new simple volume for the unallocated space its showing that it cant make a simole volume?please help.

  354. Barun kumar

    fruitful information good job.

  355. Thanks Tanmay! It helped!

  356. Durvas

    Its very amezing……

  357. manojkumar sharma

    hi i tried to make the partition of my c drive in window 7 home basic but after completing the last step i m getting some warning……….
    the operation you selected will convert the selected basic to dynmic disk(s).if you convert the disk to dynamic you will not able to start installed operating system from any volume on the disk (except the current boot volume) .are you want to contiue….
    what shall i do…………..

  358. Atif Noor

    MAnojKumar Sharma go ahead and complete the process, it meeans that you can only install your windows on your C drive not on your any other drive and normally we install windows on c drive

    Regards
    Atif Noor

  359. Suman

    Thanks a lot Tanmay, it was really helpful! :)

  360. Manukargone

    super

  361. ravindra

    sir plz tell me………………when i allocating my unallocated drive it will finish with a massege that the disk is already reached its maximum number of partition………..how i shortout this problem …plz tell me

  362. Rocky_base

    after partition the D: does not appear in my computer? wats up?

  363. Nihlah

    thanks a lot! this is really helpful :)

  364. Naveed Hashmi

    Very Very helpful…nicely explained. Thanks!

  365. Tiger

    The instructions on the Microsoft webpage does not mention anything about Volume Shrink. I found this page with its illustrations much more helpful in any case. Thanks pal. You’re a God! :b

  366. Moiz_u2

    thanks a lot, very nice explanation ance again thanks for ur information.

  367. Gam360

    Thanks alot for the information

  368. mohd imamuddin

    i have done shrink but after shrink it is showing only 6 gb but i want more so i want to delete that allocated partition plz tell me how to do it? thanks

  369. Md. Sakawat Hossen

    Thanks to You for your information.After Read your information and advice I feel relax with my window.
     

  370. suyash

    wat to do wen u hv already many partions n u hv to manage in 2 or 3 drives only?

  371. Vijay Devakumar

    Use Easeus Partition master home edition. It’s free and is one of the easiest tools to partition a hard disk without formatting.

  372. soni

    my hard disk is not partitioned and all my data is in one C: only , can i use this procedure .. help me ..

    • Raj Kumar

      EaseUs Partition Master Home Edition works great, it’s free and is easy to use. But if you are using Windows 7 Home Basic then the new partition will have the autorun option turned on by default. You will be required to download the below fix to disable it, as the gpedit.msc is not available in Windows 7 Home Basic.
      http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9741395

      and to reverse that and enable autorun again:
      http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9743275

  373. Shalijohn

    thanks a lot

  374. Megha

    If I follow the above mentioned steps , will I lose any data on my already available drive? Pls help.

    • Anonymous

      If you proceed properly, you won’t loss any data. Thanks.

  375. Megha

    If I follow the above mentioned steps , will I lose any data on my already available drive? Pls help.

  376. Mca Shakeb

    yes great work..
    I want to talk to you.
    please teach me. 
    thank you for gift..
    [email protected]

  377. Thanks alot for this step-by-step guide. It worked for me on Windows 7 Home Premium. Just followed this whole procedure and here I am. Thanks.

  378. Cheryl

    Thanks for the wonderfully clear instructions (and for your link to the Win7 starter instructions). I partitioned my 1TB HDD into a C drive and a G drive on my Acer Aspire X3470 (yes, the specs aren’t great, but it was a great deal!)

    I do have an unlabelled drive in Disk Management that is 15gb and is described as the Recovery Partition. Right-clicking on it does not allow me to assign it a drive name (“Help” is the only option) so I cannot unallocate it and extend it to my new G drive.

    I would be nice to reallocate this partition, as I already have 4 volumes present (recall I have a win7 starter) and I would like to further shrink my c drive down to a 100gb as a dedicated OS drive. Do you have a suggestion for me?

    Thanks again for the clarity of your instructions: what a lifesaver!

  379. DEEEEE!!

    THANKS A LOT!!
    IT WAS QUITE HELPFUL!

  380. dexter

    Very good tutorial. Thank you very much sir!

  381. anushree.r

    sir’
    I have a laptop(320gb) while using net windows seven get geniue,after it happen we need to format.i had did that also but while formating it’s get error after it shown this it’s not loading or restart nothing like that it’s not moving the page is like that itself. for this what i should do? please give me a solution for this sir?

  382. Thank you for this step by step tutorial i really need this :)

  383. chetan

    amazing it works so quick thanks

  384. noufal

    thank you very much…Good job…keep it up…useful information explained in simple way…its so easy now.

  385. himanshu

    nice presentation for partitioning disk….

  386. Florent

    this document is helpful, so I downloaded the related video and I fail to play it because it’s in html. so help me to know the way I can play it or download it.

  387. Mohd Atif

    Hi
    I want to add more space to C drive taking free space from another drive regarding this plz help me and how to make my pc fast.

    Thank you.

  388. anurag

    cannot create a new volume in this unallocated space because the disk already contains maximum number of partitions
    and when i go to my computer the c drive is fragmented to its half value and the other half is not there .what to do?

  389. Abhay

    Thnx. Its really very simple and nice and it also work for windows 7 Home basic. thnx…………

  390. Sujan

    Simply fabulous……Really helpful and informative…it work great!!!! Thanks y’all for this information

  391. Maleeha

    thanku so much…this was really helpful

  392. Fouad Tarik

    Thanks, i have a little problem though, my C:/ is 450 GBs and i’d like to partition about 200 GB, However, Only 116 GBs are free, and i can’t afford to delete the files, Help anyone?

  393. immanuyelu

    sir , i have windows7 genuine in 64-bit with original operating system , i can’t partitioning my hard drive can u please help me how to partitioning my hard drive

  394. immanuyelu

    sir , i have windows7 genuine in 64-bit with original operating system , i can’t partitioning my hard drive can u please help me how to partitioning my hard drive,
    it shows an earror message “the operation you selected will convert the selected basic disk(s) to dynamic disks(s).if you convert the disks to dynamic, you will not be able to start installed operating systems from any volume on the disks(except the current boot volume).Are you sure you want to continue? ” i click to “yes” after aa error mesage have occured “Dynamic disks are supported by this operating system or server configuration, Dynamic disks are not supported on clusters.” so please give me suggestions to how to partitioning my hard drive.

  395. priyanka

    u r amazing thank u so much……………

  396. tom cruise

    yes this is really great .and easy .is there any method even to divide the filled up space in hard disk into new drive without losing data.

  397. Sunil

    Hello,my hard disk contains two operating system windows xp and windows 7 with 4 partitions , now i want to merge first two partition n install windows 7 in the hard disk using window 7.

  398. raj

    hi, i almost decided to format my genuine version of windows 7 to partition my hard disk… thanks to u n ur step by step help on shrinking disk space i cud achieve what i wanted… thank u… u rock!!! :)

  399. ronron

    Thanks Very Much Tanmay

    I just want to ask if I gonna install another OS in the new drive will it run or I need to do some process. please help me. Thank you.

    This is very helpful

  400. Naresh

    hi,

    Thank u so much.it was really greatful for me…
    i wasnot knowing how to partition but after doing this all step
    i am able to do it..
    thank u.

  401. nice……….

  402. karan

    error maximum no. of partition

  403. ybajan

    yoo…thanks for the info..its working…

  404. Apoorv

    hey i used the above set of commands and successfully managed to ‘shrink’ my orignal c drive. however when a clicked on the unallocated space to form a ‘simple new volume’ this is what my computer tell me-”the operation you selected will convert the selected basic disk(s) to dynamic disk(s). if you convert the disk(s) to dynamic you will not be able to start installed any operating system from any volume on the disks(except the current boot volume). Are you sure you want to continue?”
    after pressing “yes”, the computer tells me that ‘dynamic discs are not supported by the operating system server combination?’
    What should i do?

  405. Denis

    thanks very much it has worked properly

  406. suwi

    how can i partition windows7 start.pliz help.

  407. when shrink it shows the maximum partion is existed

  408. arun

    really superb solution to my partition problem, finally i got it just coz of u dude…. thanks a lot tan…u ve done a grt job…

  409. wasim

    Friends I have windows 7 basic home edition installed and i want to create partition….but when i shrink the basic disk(local disk c)it shows that you cannot create a dynamic disk on this operating system….some of my friends have done the same but they have succeed to do so…if anybody have got some idea about it plz inform me at the same path….

  410. suwi

    it worked on my windows7 starter never did it give me any problems.thank u so much.

  411. hi
    admin this so cool information help me lot.
    thank you very much

  412. redruby

    it very simpal & helpful very…….thanks