Windows 7 has been released for a long time, are you planning to install Windows 7 now or just migrate to Win 7 for a dual-boot system? If you get ready to install Win 7, you’d better prepare partition magic for Windows 7, as there are many problems after you installing Windows 7. If you have migrated or installed Windows 7, you also need partition magic Windows 7 to better manage your new operating system. In this article, I’ll introduce the common problem in Windows 7 and how to solve these problem with partition magic Windows 7.
Common problem in Windows 7
1. Drive running out of space or low disk space problem.
If you install Windows 7 to the original system partition, you may find that the system C drive is out of space. When you open explorer or My Computer, you’ll find the system partition is marked as red. So you have to extend or resize the partition with partition magic Windows 7.
2. Lock of partition for Dual boot
If you plan to install Windows 7 and configure the system as dual boot with Windows XP, you may find there is not enough partition for new Windows 7. In this condition, you need to resize partition and create more partitions with partition magic Windows 7.
3. Lock of primary partitions
You can create 4 primary partitions at most in Windows. If you bought a new computer or try to install Windows 7, you may find that you cannot create more partitions, especially for brand computer. Generally, there is a primary partition for restoring, a hidden primary partition for Windows 7. Windows 7 system partition also is primary, so you only have one data partition. So you need partition magic Windows 7 to solve this problem.
Resize partition with partition magic Windows 7
In fact, these problems can be easily solved if you have good partition magic Windows 7 software. Please continue reading, I’ll tell you how to resize partition and solve these bothersome problems.
1. Launch Partition Wizard, right click the data partition that behind the system partition, and then choose Resize/Move.
2. In the pop up window, drag the partition rightwards, after that, this partition will be shrinked.
3. Right click the system partition and choose Resize/Move. In the pop up window, drag the right boderline of the system partition, after that, this system partition will be extended.
4. Remember to apply the operations.
The most important is to get unallocated space by shrinking an existing partition. With this unallocated space, you can extend the system partition or create new partitions. Of course, you can move the unallocated space behind any partition you want to extend.
The advantage of partition magic Windows 7 is, you can extend system partition or create new partitions without reinstalling or reformatting. If the partition you want to extend is NTFS, you can complete even without rebooting computer. You’ll save so much time to start from scratch.
By the operations above, you could solve the first two problems, to the third one, please refer how to change partition type between primary and logical, it is easy, too.
If you do not know how to operate or you have any other ideas, please leave a message in the comments.
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