{"id":8758,"date":"2019-08-22T10:20:32","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T10:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/?p=8758"},"modified":"2021-11-19T10:05:26","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T10:05:26","slug":"repartition-a-hard-drive-without-losing-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/repartition-a-hard-drive-without-losing-data\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Repartition A Hard Drive Without Losing Data?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cMy computer has one or more partitions, I want to repartition it without data loss. How can I do?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In order to manage your computer more conveniently and safely, a number of people are facing the complex problem of repartition. Especially it is troublesome for the newbies. Whether you have only one partition or several, this post will\u00a0introduce to you the extraordinarily simple ways to<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/repartition-a-hard-drive-without-losing-data\/\">\u00a0repartition a hard drive without losing data<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"#case1\">Case 1: Only one partition before repartitioning<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#case2\">Case 2: Several partitions before repartitioning<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/repartition-a-hard-drive-without-data-losing.png\" alt=\"how to repartition a hard drive without losing data\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"case1\">Case 1: Only one partition<\/h2>\n<p>In this case, you can directly repartition hard drive without data loss on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/windows-10\/7-ways-to-open-disk-management-in-windows-10.html\">Windows\u2019 Disk Management utility<\/a>. The specific steps are listed as follows.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Firstly,\u00a0Shrink the only partition to the size you want. <\/strong>Steps are as follows:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tips:<\/strong> If the only partition doesn&#8217;t have enough free space for shrinking, you have to move the data to another disk to backup before shrinking the partition.<\/p>\n<p>Step 1: Right-click\u00a0<strong>Start button <\/strong>(the bottom-left corner of desktop), and then click <strong>Disk Management<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/open-disk-management.png\" alt=\"open the Disk Management tool\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Step 2: Right-click the only partition and then click <strong>Shrink Volume<\/strong> in the context menu.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/shrink-C-volume.png\" alt=\"Shrink Volume\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Step 3: Enter the amount of space you want to shrink in MB, and then click the <strong>Shrink<\/strong> button.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/type-the-amount-of-space-to-shrink.png\" alt=\"Enter the amount of space you want to shrink\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After\u00a0shrinking, the drive has one partition and unallocated space.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/only-one-partition-and-unallocated-space.png\" alt=\"only-one-partition-and-unallocated-space\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Next, you can partition the\u00a0unallocated space to one or more volumes<\/strong>. Steps are as follows:<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"case\">Step 1<\/span>: Right-click the unallocated space and click <strong>New Simple Volume<\/strong> in the context menu.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/New-Simple-Volume.png\" alt=\"New Simple Volume\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Step 2: Click <strong>Next<\/strong> on the New Simple Volume Wizard window.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"379\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/new-simple-volume-wizard-window.png\" alt=\"new simple volume wizard window\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/new-simple-volume-wizard-window.png 480w, https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/new-simple-volume-wizard-window-300x237.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Step 3: Specify the amount of space you want to assign to this new partition and click <strong>Next<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Specify-the-amount-of-space.png\" alt=\"Specify the amount of space you want to assign to this new partition\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Step 4: Assign the drive letter or path to your partition and click <strong>Next<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Assign-the-drive-letter-or-path.png\" alt=\"Assign the drive letter or path to your partition\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Step 5: Choose the settings of your preference and click <strong>Next<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tips:<\/strong> If you are unclear what to choose, it will be better to leave the default settings unmodified.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Choose-the-settings-of-your-preference.png\" alt=\"choose the settings of your preference\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Step 6:\u00a0Click <strong>Finish<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"378\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9580\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/finish.png\" alt=\"finish creating volume\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/finish.png 480w, https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/finish-300x236.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"case2\">Case 2: Several partitions<\/h2>\n<p>In this case, if you want to repartition your hard drive without losing data, you have to use a third-party tool. There are lots of partition tools on the Internet that allow you to repartition, but most of them are complicated. Here we can use a very simple but practical tool <a href=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/clonego\/\">CloneGo<\/a> and Windows\u2019 Disk Management to repartition.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"#part1\">Part 1: Back up all the partitions except C Drive with CloneGo.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#part2\">Part 2: Delete and create new partitions with Disk Management tool.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#part3\">Part 3: Restore the data to the new partitions with CloneGo.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 id=\"part1\">Part 1: Back up all the partitions except C Drive with CloneGo.<\/h3>\n<p>Step 1: Open CloneGo and click <strong>Backup<\/strong> on the left panel.<\/p>\n<p>Step 2: Click the D Drive that you want to back up.<\/p>\n<p>Step 3: Click <strong>Choose<\/strong> to select a path.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/choose-the-volume-to-backup.png\" alt=\"backup the partition\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Step 4: Choose the destination and click <strong>Save<\/strong>. It can be the Cloud Drive or any partition in a different hard disk.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/select-the-destination.png\" alt=\"Choose the destination\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Step 5<strong>: <\/strong>Click <strong>Start<\/strong> and then Click <strong>OK<\/strong> to confirm the backup operation.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/click-ok-to-confirm.png\" alt=\"confirm the backup operation\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After that, the data of D drive will be compressed as a file in another place, which can be restored with CloneGo. You can also backup other partitions referring to the above steps.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"part2\">Part 2: Delete and create new partitions with Disk Management tool.<\/h3>\n<p>Step 1: Open the Disk Management tool. Right-click the partition and then click <strong>Delete volume <\/strong>in the context menu.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/delete-volume.png\" alt=\"Delete volume\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Step 2: Click <strong>Yes<\/strong> to continue deleting.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/click-yes-to-continue.png\" alt=\" Click Yes to continue\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Step 3: Repeat the above two steps to delete all the partitions except C Drive.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, your hard drive will have only one partition(C:) and the unallocated space. As a result, you can refer to the <a href=\"#case\">Case 1<\/a> to create new partitions as you like.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/create-new-partitions-as-you-like.png\" alt=\"create new partitions\" \/><\/p>\n<h3 id=\"part3\">Part 3: Restore the data to the new partitions with CloneGo.<\/h3>\n<p>Step 1: Open CloneGo and click <strong>Restore<\/strong> on the left panel.<\/p>\n<p>Step 2: Select the restoration destination.<\/p>\n<p>Step 3: Choose a backup file to restore.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/restore-the-data-to-new-volume.png\" alt=\"restore the backup file\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Step 4: Click <strong>Start<\/strong> and click <strong>OK<\/strong> to continue restoring.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/click-start-to-restoring.png\" alt=\"start t to restore\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Step 5: Repeat the above steps to restore all the backup files.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, you will repartition your hard drive without losing data.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Related Articles:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/duplicate-hdd-partition-to-ssd-in-windows-10\/\">How to Duplicate HDD One or More Partition to SSD in Windows 10<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/computer\/copy-partition-to-another-partition-on-windows-and-mac.html\">How to Copy Partition to another Partition on Windows and Mac<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/computer\/copy-windows-operating-system-to-wd-elements-usb-device.html\">Solved&#8211;Copy Windows Operating System to WD Elements SE USB Device<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMy computer has one or more partitions, I want to repartition it without data loss. 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