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Extending and shrinking partitions

Extending and shrinking partitions

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Extending and shrinking partitions

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- [Presenter] It's possible to mess with disk partitions that have data on them and not lose the data. Windows allows you to shrink or extend such volumes and I plan to do so with drive D shown here, it's a two terabyte external drive and I'll open it to show you that it does have a few files is on it. To perform the operation, you use the disk management console. Pop up the start menu and type disk management until you see this item, choose it, create and format hard disk partitions. Here you see a drive D which is a physical disk and it has one single partition for the entire disk. To shrink this partition say to make room for a second partition, right click and choose Shrink Volume. After Windows does a bit of math, you see the volumes current size, the amount of shrink by and the resulting size. These numbers reflect the maximum size you can shrink the partition without losing any data. If you wanted to lose data…

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