Those are the resources for resizing partitions in Windows 7, Windows 8 and the latest Windows 10, extend volume in Diskpart command line and partition software-Partition Expert
With the help of diskpart.exe in Windows 7, it’s easy to resize a partition and manage disk problems. Resize partition, to be more specific, shrink the partition, extend partition, merge partition, move free space or unallocated space, things like that, or manage disk problems like convert MBR to GPT, or convert GPT to MBR; NTFS to FAT32, or FAT32 to NTFS. Diskpart.exe make things easier and faster than most of the partition software, but it cannot keep data intact when doing many tasks, third-party partition magic software, on the other hand, can keep data safe under all circumstance.
Hard drives with a large capacity are now in common and with affordable price, 2TB hard drive is no longer considered as a large disk anymore, 4TB ones, however, is on its way to becoming popular. And problems like the above listed are likely to happen especially when disks have defaulted to MBR in hard drive factory.
When we say can’t resize partition we mostly mean can’t extend a volume that is running out of space with the default partition manager - Disk Management, and there’re situations that not only the Extend Volume option can’t work but also the Shrink Volume option can’t work either.
To Resize a Partition in Windows 7 is needed when Windows 10 anniversary update coming with a lot of features added and improved. If you are now facing low disk space issue in Windows 7, you can try Partition Expert to resize partition with its core function Resize/Move Volume without data loss.
VHD, short for Virtual Hard Disk, only available in Windows 7 and the Client OS after it, or Windows Server 2008 and its Successor. The file extension is .vhd, it’s a single file in one partition with a certain amount of capacity, with this file we can directly create a new partition on it, it’s also another way of backup and restores files. So it’s widely used in Server system. Windows Disk Management can recognize it and can directly make changes to it, so problems like resizing and moving partition can also happen to VHD partition too. We’ll try partition software to solve this.