Computer hard drive is divided into several partitions to easily manage the data and have better data accessing performance. Sometimes you might need to change the basic layout of hard drive partitions to complete your requirements. The number of officially supported operations is very limited in Windows.
Microsoft Windows operating system supports the below given partition management operations with Windows hard drive:
- Create Partition
- Delete Partition
- Expend an existing hard drive partition to occupy some extra space from another hard drive partitions.
There are a few dissimilarities of these, involving the extended and primary partitions and logical drives, but the basic idea is same behind all. Moving or resizing is the main operation, performed on existing hard drive partitions.
- Moving or Resizing: Resizing the hard drive partition means increasing/decreasing the capacity of a particular partition by taking/giving space to/from other hard drive partition.
For moving and resizing the hard drive partitions, the official ways is to format the hard drive and create new hard drive partitions. But if you do not like to format the hard drive and lose your data, you can perform these operations by using the third party tools, specifically designed to perform the same operations.
These tools are very easy to use and are very powerful to carry out all these basic operations very easily and effectively. Using these software, you do not need to have backup and format the hard drive for moving and resizing partitions. Though, it is very easy to move or resize the hard drive partitions using third party tools but sometimes due to external interrupt, damaged disk data structure and the similar reasons, the process may fail and the drive may become fully unusable. The data stored on the drive may get lost and you may fall in need to hard drive recovery.
Hard drive recovery in such catastrophic situations is feasible using the advanced and highly influential data recovery software such as Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery software.
