Partition capacity is a way to increase the extra space for a partition when the space of a partition cannot meet the usage requirements. Many friends usually use PartitionMagic when encountering this situation. But in fact, users who use Windows XP/Server 2003 can use the system's built-in disk management function to complete the partition's space "capacity". Let’s discuss it in an example way.
1. Make a free space
Suppose you need to add 50MB of space to disk D now, and this space needs to be extracted from disk E. Then first of all, you need to divide the 50MB space from the E disk. The process of this operation is as follows:
First transfer all data in disk E to other partitions, then click "Start → Run", enter "" and press Enter to open the "Disk Management" window. Select the E disk and right-click it, and select the "Delete this logical drive" item in the pop-up shortcut menu. Click the "Yes" button to continue in the pop-up prompt box. After the operation is completed, the free space of the same size as the deleted partition will appear in the "Disk 0" column.
2. Add capacity to the partition
At this time, please note that the current space of disk D is 855MB. Now let’s add 50MB to it. Click "Start → Program → Attachment → Command Prompt", and enter four commands "Diskpart", "List volume", "Select volume 2", and "Extend Size=50" in the open window.
Among them, the "Diskpart" command is used to call the DOS disk management program, and the "Diskpart/?" command can see the Chinese help information under DOS of this command. "List Volume" is used to display the detailed information of all disks on the system, so as to know the volume number of the required expansion zone. Here you can see that the volume number of disk D is "2"; the "Select Volume 2" command is used to select volumes, and here you select volume 2 according to the prompts obtained in the previous step; "Extend Size=50" is used to increase the capacity of disk D. The source space for this capacity is of course the divided free space. Judging from the result of command execution "DiskPart successfully expanded the volume", we have successfully increased the space capacity of disk D, as shown in the figure.
Finally, select the remaining available space in the "Disk Management Window", click the "Operation → All Tasks → New Logical Drive" command, assign the drive letter to the space according to the prompts and perform formatting operations.
1. Make a free space
Suppose you need to add 50MB of space to disk D now, and this space needs to be extracted from disk E. Then first of all, you need to divide the 50MB space from the E disk. The process of this operation is as follows:
First transfer all data in disk E to other partitions, then click "Start → Run", enter "" and press Enter to open the "Disk Management" window. Select the E disk and right-click it, and select the "Delete this logical drive" item in the pop-up shortcut menu. Click the "Yes" button to continue in the pop-up prompt box. After the operation is completed, the free space of the same size as the deleted partition will appear in the "Disk 0" column.
2. Add capacity to the partition
At this time, please note that the current space of disk D is 855MB. Now let’s add 50MB to it. Click "Start → Program → Attachment → Command Prompt", and enter four commands "Diskpart", "List volume", "Select volume 2", and "Extend Size=50" in the open window.
Among them, the "Diskpart" command is used to call the DOS disk management program, and the "Diskpart/?" command can see the Chinese help information under DOS of this command. "List Volume" is used to display the detailed information of all disks on the system, so as to know the volume number of the required expansion zone. Here you can see that the volume number of disk D is "2"; the "Select Volume 2" command is used to select volumes, and here you select volume 2 according to the prompts obtained in the previous step; "Extend Size=50" is used to increase the capacity of disk D. The source space for this capacity is of course the divided free space. Judging from the result of command execution "DiskPart successfully expanded the volume", we have successfully increased the space capacity of disk D, as shown in the figure.
Finally, select the remaining available space in the "Disk Management Window", click the "Operation → All Tasks → New Logical Drive" command, assign the drive letter to the space according to the prompts and perform formatting operations.