How to Shrink or Extend Your Existing Hard Disk Partition Volume

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Hello friends, today we will show you how to extend or shrink your existing HARD DISK partition. Sometimes it is needed to extend and specific partition and if spaces are available in other drives shrinking is possible. You could also shrink volume with almost similar steps.

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    First Click "CONTROL PANEL"
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    Under Administrative Section "Create and format Hard Disk partition"
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    You can't create a new drive. You can connect an external hard drive to your computer and use that like a USB, essentially.
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    I have an E: drive partition and 30GB allocated free space available. I only have the option to 'shrink this drive'. My C: drive is full and is limiting my being able to operate my laptop. Can I expand it?
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    Before you do something drastic to a hard drive, such as manipulating its partitions, that you should back up your data. Before you change the partition, you should already have had a regular backup strategy. After changing the partition, you should have a regular backup strategy. This would be a good time to implement a backup strategy. Today's hard drives and SSDs are just not reliable enough to go without backing them up. "USB 2" should not be part of your backup strategy, by the way.
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