Fantastic Program – Change NTFS Partition Size W/O Data Loss

Why Change NTFS Partition Size

NTFS File System Is Popular

As you know, FAT32 and NTFS are the most commonly used file systems in Windows, with the latter one enjoying more powerful functions and popularity. The reason? Well, hard drives are going for larger capacity, and networks are getting more complex, thus, security is generating more concerns. As NTFS provides better security than FAT 32, it is undoubtedly enjoying more popularity.

Below is a rough comparison between NTFS and FAT32.

NTFS VS. FAT32

Resize NTFS Partition Size Is a Common Requirement

To wrap up, due to the better performance NFTS can offer, it has become the most welcomed file system. However, in many cases you may need to change NTFS partition size to make use of the disk space better. For example, the C: drive is running on low disk space; OR the entertainment partition is occupying too much disk space…

Then you may turn to Disk Management or Diskpart for help. The result? Well, sometimes you can benefit from these built-in tools, yet in many cases you get disappointed.

Disk Management and Diskpart are useful when you shrink a NTFS partition, but is of great limitation when you want to extend NTFS partition. As to the reasons, you can refer to this post: Why Extend Volume Greyed out and how to solve it?

Since the systems build-in Disk Management tool fails to resize partition, a third-party partition manager such as MiniTool Partition Wizard should be utilized to finish this operation.

Obtain 5-star MiniTool Partition Wizard

MiniTool Partition Wizard is an all-in-one desktop program that is committed to help Windows users deal with all kinds of hard drive management issues. This software is composed of five editions, among them the free edition is a 5-star recommendation.

MiniTool Partition Wizard Free is not only powerful in changing NTFS partition size, but also offers many useful features like Migrate OS to SSD/HD, convert MBR Disk to GPT Disk, do Partition Recovery, etc. Due to its concise interface and outstanding performance, it has gained grate reputation all over the world.

Let’s see how it works on resizing NTFS Partition:

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Situation One: Extend NTFS Partition

When the disk space becomes insufficient, hard drive response will become slower and slower, leading to a bad computer performance. In this regard, extending NTFS partition size is quite urgent so as to enhance partition performance.

To extend NTFS partition with MiniTool Partition Wizard, you can do the followings:

Step 1: Click on the partition you want to extend and choose “Extend Partition“. Here take extending partition C: for example.

Step 2: In the pop-up windows choose where to take some free space and how much free space you want by dragging the slider. Then click “OK” to back to the main interface.

Step 3: Lastly, click “Apply” at the top left corner. 

Are you a server user? Then this “Resize Server Partition” post may help you change NTFS partition size in Windows Server.

Situation Two: Shrink NTFS Partition

Sometimes, you may need to shrink a partition to release some free space and then create another partition. In this case, you can do the followings:

Step 1: Click on the partition you want to shrink and choose “Move/Resize Partition“. Also take shrinking partition C: for example.

Step 2: In the pop-up window drag the triangle leftwards to reduce the current partition size. Then click “OK” to continue.

Step 3: Finally click “Apply” to end this process.

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What’s Your Choice?

Here comes to the end of this article. Now you know how to change NTFS partition flexibly to meet your variable requirements. Hope you can benefit from this article. By the way, when you want to extend a NTFS partition but the whole disk is full of data, which means no partition on the same disk can offer some free space, you may consider upgrade hard drive by using MiniTool Partition Wizard, which is the most reliable way to transfer data to another hard drive without system reinstallation.