How to extend and shrink partition easily in Windows XP?

The operating system Windows XP released in 2001. Over the decade, Windows XP has finished a success close to perfect service work for its world wide users. Although upgrade version Windows system with powerful function and fast running run out, most people still keep using Windows XP as their dependent assistant for its available working. As Windows XP user, you may know some features how to create, delete and format partition. Even so, troubles are often encountered during the process of resizing XP partition. Taking an example, you can see on a fairly regular basis as your hard drive fills up is the low disk space warning. Windows XP has in-put basic function but limited without extending volume or shrinking volume.

Facing that, you can now and then ignore the Windows low disk space and jump the warning. Surprisingly, it indicates big problem on the C: drive. Windows XP properly count on a minimum amount of available disk space on the system drive. To solve this problem, firstly, you can cleanup files checked as safely erase. Objectively this gives little help. Then, you can consider removing programs that you abandon and moving large videos, music and graphics of media files to other partition. So it must cost you a lot of time. Last but not the least, to extend partition with Aomei Partition Assistant Home Editionfree partition manager software to resize partition is the easy and efficient way. You can extend your partition as you wish and not need to worry about data loss. Thus it can be seen that extending partition is a prior consideration to solve your low disk space problem.

Extend Windows XP Partition

And I’d like to introduce you amazed partition magic software. That is partition assistant, an excellent partition manager specially designed for Windows XP to maximize system performance. Aomei Partition Assistant allows you to expand partition safely, and also you can shrink volume and move volume. Usually, resizing operation covers both extending and shrinking operation. Here, partition management steps are showing on Windows XP hard disk for you, please download partition magic freeware first to follow the steps:

Firstly you should close all other programs before launching partition software. After launching it, you will see the main fresh interface as follows:

Click E:partition, drag the left side rightwards to release some unallocated space:

Click partition C and then drag the right side rightwards to cover the gray unallocated space:

Now what you have to do is just apply it. At last you will check out volume of partition C extended as you wanted. You obviously get about 14GB by a simple operation.

Shrink Windows XP Partition

Attention that if you shrink the system partition computer will restart after applying operations. And you'd better to make sure that all other programs closed before shrinking partition on non-system partition so as to avoid restarting computer. Please refer to the following screenshot:

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