How to extend partition in Windows 8?

When installing Windows 8, you may find the system partition space is small and the system partition space is not enough after the installation. Facing such kind of problems, what can you do? You may want to extend system partition for Windows 8 and users generally extend system partition with the third-party free partition magic. In fact, the built-in disk management tool in Windows 8 is greatly promoted, enabling users to extend system partition. Here is the demo of its operations.

In the Computer Management of Windows 8, you will see this interface.



Some basic disk information is displayed here. Choose the disk system partition and right click to choose "Extend Volume" on pop-up menu.



This welcome interface tells you that you can extend a volume by adding space for one or more additional disks. Click "Next>".



On this interface, choose the available space on the right list-box and then input desired space in "Select the amount of space in MB" textbox. Click "Next>" to turn to next interface.



Here, click "Finish" to complete all operations.



On this interface, you can see information after the system partition is extended.

Although you extend system partition with the Windows 8 built-in disk management tool, but the operations are relatively complicated and you can't preview the effect. Therefore, it is not the best choice to use Windows 8 built-in disk management tool. Is there better solution? In fact, you can employ the free partition magic MiniTool Partition Wizard to extend system partition for Windows.

Use the free partition magic MiniTool Partition Wizard to extend system partition
Firstly, visit http://www.partitionwizard.com/ to free download the free partition magic MiniTool Partition Wizard. After that, install this free partition wizard on partition not to operate, avoiding trouble or accidents caused by rebooting. After the installation, start to extend system partition.

Run the free partition magic MiniTool Partition Wizard under Windows 8 to see interface below.



Some basic information of computer disk is displayed here, such as partition name and partition size. Choose the system partition to expand and right click to choose "Move/Resize" on pop-up menu.



Drag the border of partition handle to blank area (unallocated space) to expand system partition for Windows. You can also input exact partition size in textbox to expand system partition for Windows. Next, click "OK".



Here, you can preview the effect after partition is extended. If the preview effect is wanted, click "Apply" on the top left corner to perform operations. You successfully expand system partition for Windows.

Indeed, using the free partition magic MiniTool Partition Wizard to expand system partition for Windows is very convenient. Besides, it has lots of other powerful disk management functions, perfectly meeting your different disk management requirements. Download and own this free partition magic now!