How To Resize Your Partitions with EASEUS Partition Manager

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If you've ever had to resize a partition, or make new partitions, then I completely understand what you most likely went through. Good partition management software for Windows is hard to come by, well the free partition managers anyways. Almost everyone has heard of Partition Magic, but there is a hefty price tag that comes with it.

As it turns out, there is a great application out there just for the Windows home user. It's called EASEUS Partition Manager, and you should download it today!

In this short tutorial, I'm going to increase the size of the C: drive on my Windows Vista PC.

Important Note: Please backup your data before attempting to make changes to the partitions on your computer. There is always the potential for lost data - so take the time to ensure you have a good backup. If you need some help getting that started, check out this post on Backing up Your Windows Data the Simple Way - with Cobian Backup.

As you can see in the image below, My C: drive is about 40 GB, with only 5 GB of free space available. My D: drive is a second partition on the same physical drive as my C: drive. Under that you'll notice I have 10 GB of Unallocated space. This is space that was never assigned to anything. I’m going to expand my C: drive to include this space - for a grand total of 50 GB.

The real trick in resizing the first partition on a multi-partition drive is in allocating the space in precisely the right location. In this example, all of the unallocated free space is at the end of the D: drive, which means I'll have to move it to the beginning of the D: drive, so that I can eventually add it to C: drive. First, I'll select the D: drive and click on the Resize/Move button. A new window opens up and lets you enter the new settings that you would like to use. Read the rest of this entry »