Partition Problems in Windows XP

The operating system Windows XP released in 2001. Over the decade, Windows XP has finished successful close to perfect service work for its world wide users. Though update version Windows system with powerful function and fast running, many people still always keep using Windows XP as their dependent assistant due to the available working. As Windows XP user, chances are you may know some functions how to create, delete and format partition. However, troublesome often encountered once you increase partition and decrease partition. Taking an example, you can see on a fairly regular basis as your hdd fills up is the low hard drive space warning. Windows XP has built-in basic function but limited without increasing volume or shrinking volume.

Facing that, you can now and then neglect the Windows low disk space and jump the warning. Surprisingly, it indicates difficult issue on the C: drive. Windows XP operating properly depend on a minimum amount of available hard drive space on the system drive. To solve this problem, to begin with, you can clean up files checked as safely erase. Objectively this gives little help. After that, you can consider cleaning out programs that you abandon and moving large videos, music and graphics of media files to other partition. So it must cost you a lot of time. The most efficient method, to increases partition with free partition manager software to resize partition is the simple and economical way. You can expand your partition as you like and not have to fear of data loss. Thus it can be seen that extending partition is a prior consideration to solve your problem of  low disk space.

Expand Windows XP Partition

I want to introduce you amazed partition utility. That’s partition assistant, a good partition manager specially made for Windows XP to optimize system performance. This Partition Assistant enables you extend a partition of the low disk space safely, and you also can shrink volume and move volume. Normally, resizing operation deal with both extending and shrinking operation. Here, partition management steps are showing on Windows XP drive for you:

To begin with you should close all the programs before launching the partition software. After launching it, notice the screen, click “Partition Management” option to operate the Partition Manager.

Then you will go into the dialog window, you should click the D: partition, D will appear in the software. Move the mouse to the left of partition D till you find the double-headed arrow. Then drag the double-headed arrow toward right to set enough volume (you need expand in partition C) free. The volume you want become unallocated standing left in gray. Click partition C and move the mouse to its right, then drag the double-headed arrow toward right to cover the gray unallocated.

Finally, what you should do is only apply it. Finally you’ll check out amount of partition C extended as you wanted. You obviously get about 2.6GB by a simple operation.

Reduce Windows XP Partition

Process could follow above but in the opposite direction. Attention that if you reduce the boot partition computer will restart after applying operations. And you’d better to make sure that all other programs closed before reduce partition on non-system partition, so as to prevent reboot computer.