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Do you know how to make changes to the partitions? This article will show you how to use three free Windows 7 partition managers - MiniTool Partition Wizard, Disk Management and Command Prompt to extend partitions and so on.

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I recently upgraded a Dell XPS 8700 to Win10 and then downgraded back to Win7 because of compatibility with games. I'd like to delete the 21.18 GB recovery partition and add that space of the OS partition (Disk 2), SSD. The recovery partition is for Win8 it's no longer needed. Could someone recommend a good partition management tool to help me do this? It doesn't necessarily need to be free but free is OK. Thanks. --from Tenforums

Today Windows 7 is still occupying the first place of desktop operating system market share, in spite of the rapid growth rate of Windows 10 installation. Since so many users are sticking to use Windows 7, Windows 7 surrounding topics are growing vigorously. With the popularity of high capacity hard drives, the importance of finding free Windows 7 partition manager is no need to say.

There are tons of partition managers for Windows, however, free partition manager is always more popular. In this post, I am going to introduce 3 free partition managers, and they are: MiniTool Partition Wizard, CMD and Disk Management. By using them to do the same tasks, you know which is the best free partition software.

MiniTool Partition Wizard

Developed by MiniTool Solution Std., partition software Windows 7 - MiniTool Partition Wizard has five editions: Free, Professional, Server, Enterprise and Technician. Among these five editions, MiniTool Partition Wizard Free has got over 20,000,000 users download from CNET by now! This shows it is trusted by the majority. Why is it a great success?

Features of MiniTool Partition Wizard

MiniTool Partition Wizard Free Edition is designed to solve all possible issues that can occur on basic disks. Example: you can use it to create/delete/format partition, to move/resize partition, to split partition, to copy partition/disk, to migrate OS to HDD/SSD, to hide/unhide partition, to recover lost partition, to convert MBR to GPT and vice versa, and more…

This desktop program can be used for Windows non-server OS, including Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10 all editions. Thus, it is really a free Windows 7 partition manager.

Let's see how it works on extending Windows 7 partition and converting MBR disk to GPT disk.

Use MiniTool Partition Wizard Free to Extend Partition

Step 1. Launch MiniTool Partition Wizard Free, then click on the partition to be extended (here is partition H) and choose 'Extend Partition' from the operations menu.
Step 2. In the new emerging window, drop down the check box to choose a partition/unallocated space to take free space from. Besides, you can also choose how much free space you need by sliding the quadrangle. Here I choose to take some free space form the 408.55 GB unallocated space.
Step 3. Click 'Apply' to save changes.

Here is what partition C looks like after the extending. See the H drive has been increased from 36.9 GB to 241.2 GB; whereas the unallocated space has been decreased from 408.6 GB to 204.3 GB.

Tip: If the partition you intend to extend is followed by unallocated space, you can also use the 'Move/Resize Partition' feature.

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Use MiniTool Partition Wizard Free to Convert MBR Disk to GPT

I have said at the beginning, large capacity drives are gaining popularity in this day and age, thus how to convert MBR disk to GPT disk without affecting data is a frequently asked issue on the net. Click here to get the reasons. Luckily, MiniTool Partition Wizard can do this job well.

Step 1. Click on the MBR disk you want to convert and choose 'Convert MBR Disk to GPT Disk'.
Step 2. Click 'Apply' to save this change.

See Disk 2 is successfully changed to GPT disk, and all partitions are still there.

Pros: MiniTool Partition Wizard is flexible to deal with disk/partition management. Besides, its user-friendly clear interface is easy to be understood. What's more, as third-party software, it is a free partition software Windows 7 in essence.

Cons: MiniTool Partition Wizard Free Edition only works on Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10, which means if you are a server user, you won't benefit from this freeware.

Windows 7 Partition Manager CMD

Command Prompt, also known as cmd.exe or cmd (after its executable file name), is the command-line interpreter on Windows NT, Windows CE, OS/2 and eComStation operating systems. It is the counterpart of COMMAND.COM in DOS and Windows 9x systems (where it is also called 'MS-DOS Prompt'), and analogous to the Unix shells used on Unix-like systems. The initial version of Command Prompt for Windows NT was developed by Therese Stowell.--from Wikipedia

Command Prompt is frequently used to automate tasks via scripts and batch files, perform advanced administrative functions, and solve certain kinds of Windows issues. To resolve disk management issues, you should run CMD, type a series of commands in order, and be careful to avoid mistaken operations, for any carelessness may lead to serious data loss.

Example: if you want to format partition F: - the 2nd partition on disk 1, you should go through these commands in order: list disk -> select disk 1 -> list partition -> select partition 2 - > format quick. But if you input format instead of format quick, then the removed data cannot be recovered even by professional data recovery program. Seems rather complex right?

See how you can use this free Windows 7 partition manager to extend partition and convert disk style.

Use CMD to Extend Partition

If you want to extend partition C by using Diskpart, then you should first of all check out whether there is some unallocated space following the C drive (Note only unallocated space can be used to extend primary partition. For more precautions please see The Volume You Have Selected May Not Be Extended). If YES, then do the followings:

Step 1: Run CMD as administrator, then type 'Diskpart'.
Step 2: Type 'list disk' in Diskpart prompt.
Step 3: Type 'select disk n' where n is the disk number of the target disk.
Step 4: Type 'list partition'.
Step 5: Type 'select partition n' where n is the partition number of the target partition.
Step 6: Type 'extend size=n disk=n' where n should be a specific number of the unallocated space/free space you want to use, and the unit for n is MB.

However, if no unallocated space/free space is available for extending, probably you will see the following error message when you come to the extend command:

At this time, you should delete the partition to make sure that there is continuous unallocated space following the primary partition to be extended and free space for logical partition. After that, repeat the above operations. For more information, please refer to Virtual Disk Service Error.

Use Diskpart to Convert MBR Disk to GPT Disk:

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