Only Windows Vista/7 and Server 2008 has shrink and extend feature to extend boot partition, but it can only resize NTFS partitionĢ. Maybe some people will say that we could use the disk management tool built-in Windows itself to resize partition, indeed, we could create, delete, format, extend and reduce partition with disk management under Microsoft Windows 2008 Server, Windows Vista and Windows 7, but there are many limitations.ġ. How to extend boot partition?Įxtend NTFS boot partition with Windows built-in Disk Management toolĪctually it's a technical issue to resize/extend boot partition for common users. Windows setup places the initial system partition based on motherboard BIOS settings. The system partition can be different from the boot partition, although they are often on the same partition (drive C:). (Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7 use a newer boot loader called bootmgr that replaces NTLDR and is configured by using BCDEdit.exe). The system partition is a disk partition that contains the boot sector and files such as NTLDR that are needed for booting Windows XP and earlier. The boot partition is the disk partition that contains the Windows operating system files and its support files, but not all files are responsible for booting. Would you please tell me the safest way to resize/extend boot (system partition) without data loss? The definition of boot partition and system partition Users, especially server users prefer to extend system boot partition to make hard disks and computers run faster and optimize the usage of the space. Why extend boot partition?Īs computer technicians, we are always asked with different questions, like how to speed up my computer and make it run faster, how to resize partition, especially how to extend boot partition on server or non-server system without reboot to maximize computer performance. Merge or resize partition to extend boot partition easily and safely.
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