While many may prefer to use the in-built Disk Management Tool, there are some who may want to use third-party software offering more features. That’s it!Īlso check out our how to shrink or extend partitions in Windows 10 guide.Planning to shrink a 120 GB Windows OS partition to 80 GB, but find it hard to remember any good, reliable Partition Manager’s names? Do not worry, we have, in this post highlighted the names of some of the best free Partition Manager software for Windows 10/8/7 and mentioned each in brief. Step 3: Now, right-click on the unallocated space on the USB drive, click New Simple Volume, click Next, click Next again (don’t change Simple volume size), click Next once again, choose file system as NTFS and finally, click Next again. Please make sure that the partition or volume you are deleting is on the USB drive, and there is no data on the USB.
Do this step for all partitions on the USB drive. Step 2: Right-click on one of the partitions on the USB drive, and click Delete Volume to create unallocated space. Please back up your data to another drive before deleting partitions. IMPORTANT: This will erase all data on the USB drive. You should now see two partitions on USB drive in File Explorer as well as in Disk Management. Step 10: Finally, click Next button to create a new partition on the USB drive. Step 9: Choose a drive letter for the new partition on the USB. But if you want to create two or more partitions from the available unallocated space, reduce the Simple volume size. If you want to use all unallocated space to create a partition (two partitions on USB drive), go ahead and click Next button. Step 8: In this step, you need to specify the size for the new volume or partition. Step 7: Once New Simple Volume Wizard appears on screen, click Next button. Make sure that you are right-clicking on the unallocated space of USB drive only. Step 6: Now, right-click on the newly created unallocated space on USB, and then click New Simple Volume option. The action will create unallocated space on your USB drive. For instance, on a 16 GB drive, if you want to create two partitions of about 8 GB, then shrink the drive by about 7000 MB.Ĭlick Shrink button. Step 5: In the “ Enter the amount of space to shrink in MB” field, type in the amount in MB that you want to use for creating a new partition on the USB drive. If the USB flash drive is formatted in FAT, the Shrink Volume option doesn’t appear.
Step 4: In the Disk Management window, right-click on the USB drive and then click Shrink Volume option. Step 3: Right-click on the Start button on the taskbar. Once done, you will see “ Format complete” message. Click OK button when you see the warning dialog to format the USB drive in NTFS. Choose NTFS from File System drop-down box and then click Start button. If the USB drive is formatted in FAT or FAT 32, right-click on the USB drive again (in This PC), click Format.
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