Exploring the Windows 2003 partition capacity feature

When I first saw this title, I believe many of my friends are scared, partitions are partitioned, and capacity is increased. How come together? This new combination is strange. What does the name mean? In fact, the partition expansion is also very easy to understand, that is, when a partition space cannot meet the usage requirements, it will additionally increase the space. Many friends encounter this situation, generally using PartitionMagic. But in fact, users using Windows XP/Server2003 can use the built-in disk management function to complete the partition space "enhancement". Let's explore it by way of example.

First, draw free space

Suppose now you need to increase the capacity of the D disk 50MB, this space needs to be extracted from the E disk. Then we must first divide the 50MB space from the E disk. The process of this operation is as follows:

First transfer all the data of the E disk to other partitions, then click “Start →Run”, enter “Diskmgmt.msc” and press Enter to open the disk. Manage & rdquo; window. Select the E disk and right click, and select the “Delete this logical drive” item in the shortcut menu that pops up. In the pop-up prompt box, click the “Yes” button to continue. After the operation is completed, the same amount of free space as the deleted partition will appear in the "disk"

Second, increase the capacity of the partition

At this point, please note that the current space of the D drive is 855MB, now we are going to increase the operation of 50MB. Click “Start → Programs & Rarr; Attachments & Rarr; Command Prompt & rdquo;, in the window that opens, enter the "Diskpart", "Listvolume", "Selectvolume2", "ExtendSize=50" and "ExtendSize=50".

Among them, the "Diskpart" command is used to call the DOS disk management program, and the "Diskpart/?” command can see the Chinese help information under the DOS command. “ListVolume” is used to display the details of all the disks on the system, so as to know the volume number of the required expansion partition. Here you can see that the volume number of the D drive is “2” and the “SelectVolume2” command is used to select the volume. Here, select Volume 2 according to the prompt from the previous step; “ExtendSize=50” is used to increase the D disk space. Rong, the source space of this capacity is of course the free space that has been divided. From the results of the command execution "DiskPart successfully expanded the volume", we have successfully expanded the space of the D drive, as shown.

Finally, select the remaining free space in the "Disk Management Window", click <; Operation & Rarr; All Tasks & Rarr; New Logical Drive ” command, assign drive letter to the space according to the prompt Formatting is fine.