On Windows 11, you can resize a partition to increase the size of a drive or use unallocated space to create one or more partitions. This partition resizing process does not require reformatting or losing installation files through Settings or Disk Management. Using these tools, you can resize any partition, including the C drive or partitions on any drive. Here is a guide to resizing a Windows 11 partition.
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Step 1:
Open Settings on Windows 11, then select System in the left menu list and select Storage on the right to adjust.
Switch to the new interface, scroll down and click on Advanced storage settings .
Then the user clicks on Disks & volumes to readjust the drive.
Step 2:
Now the user selects the drive with the partition that needs to be resized. Click on that drive and then select Properties .
Step 3:
Continue clicking Change size to proceed with the change.
Display pop-up to change drive partition on Windows 11. We will enter a capacity smaller than Current to shrink the partition , or enter a number larger than Current but not larger than Max to expand the partition.
Once you complete the steps, the system will resize the partition without losing data.
Step 1:
We enter the keyword Create and format hard disk partitions into the search bar, then click to open Disk Management.
Step 2:
Right- click on the drive you want to resize the partition for and click on the Shrink Volume option .
Confirm the capacity to shrink the partition and then click Shrink to perform.
We also enter Create and format hard disk partitions in the search bar , then right-click and select Extend Volume in the right-click menu to extend the partition.
Now you also fill in the capacity you want to expand the partition if needed.
Type Command Prompt in the search bar and click Run as administrator to launch it.
Type the diskpart command to start and press Enter. Next, type the list volume command to list the drives in the computer and press Enter.
Enter the command below to select the drive you want to change the partition select volume 2 , where the number 2 or any serial number you enter will correspond to the partition you want to select. Press the command shrink querymax to shrink the partition.
Press the command shrink desired=7099 to shrink the disk partition by an amount you choose.
We also enter the diskpart command and press Enter, then enter list disk to list the drives. Press the list volume command to display the list of drives. Enter the select volume 2 command to select the drive to adjust. Then enter the extend size=20480 command to expand the partition as desired.
You enter the keyword PowerShell in the search bar and then press Run as administrator . Then you enter the command Get-Disk to display the list of drives and press Enter.
Next, enter the command Get-Partition -DiskNumber 2 to list the available partitions on the drive. You can change the number 2 to another partition.
Continue typing Get-PartitionSupportedSize -DiskNumber 2 -PartitionNumber 2 to find out the minimum and maximum size that you can resize the partition. In the command, change the disk and partition numbers according to your needs.
For example, type the following command to resize the partition to 5GB and press Enter.
Resize-Partition -DiskNumber 2 -PartitionNumber 2 -Size (5GB)
To extend the partition size using PowerShell, you also enter the Get-Disk command to list all the drives and their total capacity, enter the Get-Partition -DiskNumber 2 command to select the partition. Enter the Get-PartitionSupportedSize -DiskNumber 2 -PartitionNumber 2 command to know the minimum and maximum capacity that you can resize a partition on Windows 11.
In the command, change the disk and partition numbers accordingly.
Enter the command below to increase partition Resize-Partition -DiskNumber 2 -PartitionNumber 2 -Size.
We replace the partition number and size with the information corresponding to your drive and the size to increase the partition.
Type the following command to increase the partition to 9GB and press Enter.
Resize-Partition -DiskNumber 2 -PartitionNumber 2 -Size (9GB)
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