Minitool Partition Wizard - Redistribute hard drive with Minitool Partition Wizard

In the previous article we have learned how to repartition hard drive partitions with the Disk Management tool of the  laptop  available on Windows 7 and 8, however, this tool has many shortcomings:

1. Repartitioning the hard drive is not as simple and intuitive as it should be.
2. The execution process requires a lot of work.
3. Limited to create up to 4 partitions.
4. The drive cannot be cut, but the free part is moved to the left.
5. In most cases it is necessary to perform manual backups and relocate data.
6. It can only be applied to Primary drives and partitions  , not to Logic drives and partitions  .
7. Not applicable to Windows XP.

Here, TipsMake.com will introduce to you another completely free solution to overcome the aforementioned shortcomings that is to use  MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition software .

1. How to download MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition:

The program is extremely compact with installation file less than 20MB. You can download it completely free here

Tap the  green Download Now button  and choose where to save the downloaded app.

MiniTool Partition Wizard  is ranked 2nd by CNET in the category of system tools

2. Instructions to install MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition:

After downloading MiniTool Partition Wizard  software to your computer, you double-click the downloaded file (or right-click and choose  Open ).

Open the downloaded MiniTool Partition Wizard installation file  to start installing the application

Confirmation dialog allows the installation to take place, please press  Yes  to continue.

Confirmation dialog box allows the installation of  MiniTool Partition Wizard application

You continue to press  Next  to move to the next step.

Click Next in the current window to continue

The installer displays the terms of use information, you continue to click Next to agree and continue.  

Terms of Use MiniTool Partition Wizard program 

In the next step, you can choose where to install the MiniTool Partition Wizard  program or leave the default and click  Next  to continue.

Window allows to choose the installation location of MiniTool Partition Wizard program 

The installer allows you to name a shortcut to a program in the  Start Menu . You can leave it as default and continue to press  Next .

You can name the shortcut for the MiniTool Partition Wizard  program in the Start Menu

At this step, you can let the installer create a shortcut to open the program on the desktop (you can also turn it off by unchecking ' Create a desktop icon ' ). You continue to press the Next button   to go to the next step.

The installer will create an icon for the MiniTool Partition Wizard  program on the desktop

At the last step, the installer will display the parameters and options you chose for the installation again. You can double-check and click Install to start the installation process automatically.  

The installer displays information about the settings and parameters

The MiniTool Partition Wizard  program installation process is done very quickly.

MiniTool Partition Wizard  installation process is in progress

After the installation is complete, you can click the Finish button and the program will be opened immediately.  

MiniTool Partition Wizard  installation process is complete

3. Manual MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition:

When you open the program, you can see, in addition to the partitioning function, the program also has the ability to recover lost data in the hard drive (can recover data with a capacity of less than 1GB). Here, we will redistribute the hard drive partition (no data loss), so we will choose to go to  MiniTool Partition Wizard .

MiniTool Partition Wizard  tool has the function of partitioning the hard drive and data recovery function

Here, TipsMake  will guide you to use the program to resize the partitions.

At the interface of the program, you can observe the current hard drive status as follows: drive D (Data) with a capacity of 10GB and drive E (Data 2) with a capacity of 5GB. Now we will try to remove 5GB from drive D to drive E.

Current drive status

You right-click on the D drive and click on the " Move / Resize " function.

Select the function 'Move / Resize' drive D

The window of the ' Move / Resize' function  appears as shown below.

Drive 'Move / Resize' function

You can use the mouse to drag the right part of the D drive to 5GB (= 5120MB) or type the correct number in the " Unallocated Space After " field to create a free space on the right side of the D drive and press  OK  to continue.

Reduce the size of the D drive to 5GB

As you can see, a 5GB free space has been created on the right side of drive D.

A 5GB free space is created on the right side of the D drive

You continue to select the drive E want to add 5GB, right-click and also select the function "Move / Resize" as did with drive D.

"Move / Resize" function

You use your mouse to drag for the left side of drive E to take all the free space created from drive D.

Use the mouse to drag drive E to get all the free space created from drive D

You can see that the state we wish to achieve is being displayed. Click the Apply button  .

Drive status as desired

A dialog box prompts you to turn off power saving and turn off other applications before performing the partitioning again. You can follow the prompts and press the Yes button  .

You should turn off power saving functions and disable other applications before proceeding with the partitioning.

As soon as you click the Yes button  , the program launches the necessary tasks to redistribute partitions.

The program launches the tasks needed to redistribute partitions.

The dialog box informs that the tasks have been successfully performed, just press the OK button  .

The dialog box notifies that the tasks have been completed

You can see that the D drive capacity is now 5GB and drive E is 10GB as desired.

We can also check by going to  Computer .

The capacity of the partitions has been changed as desired

Accomplished ! Check again in my Computer

Good luck !