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Enlarge a partition without losing data with Windows 7 diskmgmt?

Fresh5 days ago
Mar 15, 202613162 views
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I have a 320GB hard drive currently partitioned as below: A long time ago, a computer expert formatted my hard drive like this because I wanted to install Ubuntu. I'm now ready to do this, but I'll never need so much free space (103.09GB). I want to enlarge the D:\ volume because it already has lot…

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diskmgmt.msc

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Fix for: Enlarge a partition without losing data with Windows 7 diskmgmt?

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Both GParted and Windows 7 diskmgmt are able to shrink and extend NTFS partitions without data loss. The risk is always there, but very small – in particular, extending is a very simple operation, compared to shrinking or moving. I've used GParted f…

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