How to Use Windows 7 Disk Manager to Extend Windows 7 System Partition?

Windows 7 operating system has become more and more popular. Many users have upgraded to Windows 7 from other Windows systems. But after upgrading to Windows 7, you may find that the system partition is under run out of space and the low disk space warning pops up all the time. Every time when the system starts, Windows 7 system partition always shows in red as below:

How to solve "low disk space" warning? Windows 7 disk manager - Disk Management and EaseUS Partition Master can extend Windows 7 32 bit and 64 bit system partition to solve this issue with simple operations.

Windows 7 disk manager - Disk Management

As magic Windows 7 disk manager, Windows 7 built in Disk Management has the ability to shrink and extend Windows 7 32 bit and 64 bit system partition. You just need to right click in Disk Management and choose "Shrink Volume" or "Extend Volume". But there is a huge disadvantage to extend partition with Disk Management: "Extend Volume" is available unless there is continuous space behind this partition. Otherwise, you cannot extend partition. Because Windows 7 Disk Management cannot move partition to let continuous space be behind the partition which you want to extend. While as magic Windows 7 disk manager, EaseUS Partition Master can extend Windows 7 32 bit and 64 bit system partition with simple operations.

Windows 7 disk manager - EaseUS Partition Master

As magic Windows 7 disk manager, EaseUS Partition Master can extend Windows 7 32 bit and 64 bit system partition safely with simple operations by its "Resize/Move partition" feature. Besides "Resize/Move partition" feature, EaseUS Partition Master also provides copy partition, copy disk, copy dynamic volume, convert partition, split partition, merge partitions, etc. to manage your Windows 7 32 bit and 64 bit disk partitions more easily and safely. Moreover, EaseUS Partition Master can extend NTFS system partition without reboot. The following is step-by-step instructions to extend Windows 7 system partition.

The following is step-by-step instruction to extend system partition (C: drive).

1. Launch EaseUS Partition Master.

If there is no unallocated space behind the system partition, please follow the below steps. If there is unallocated space behind the system partition, please directly go to step 4.

2. Select partition E:, right click it, select "Resize/Move partition" and drag the partition handle leftwards to resize E drive. Then there will be unallocated space behind E: drive.

3. Move E: drive rightwards to let the unallocated space be behind the system partition (C: drive) and click OK.

4. Select the system partition (C: drive), right click it and select "Resize/Move partition", drag the partition handle rightwards to extend system partition (C: drive).

5. Click Apply.

For more detailed information, please visit resizing and moving partitions.

After EaseUS Partition Master executes these operations, you will see the Windows 7 system partition has been extended in Disk Management.

 

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