Question Best free partition tool for Windows 7?

[raptormoonx]

Hello!

I want to take a backup computer running Windows 7 Professional 64-bit (HP Pavilion dv6-2157sb) and partition it so I can put Windows 10 Professional 64 bit on it so my parents can learn how to use it. This computer has a 320GB HDD (C: - 162GB free of 283GB; Recovery D: - 2.41GB free of 14.6GB; HP_TOOLS E: - 92.7MB free of 99.3MB), 8GB of RAM. What programs (perferrably free) do you recommend for this task? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

 

[Aeacus]

Umm... i have a bit hard time following why would you want to partition current drive for Win 10 use.

To get what you'd want the easiest way, here's how i'd do it:

• pull the current 320GB HDD from the system and store it in a safe place
• buy 2.5" 1TB HDD or 2.5" 250GB SSD (pcpp) and plug it into the system
• install Win 10 onto the new drive

Video on how to change storage drive:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqhKqZeL45E

Above method is easiest way making 2nd PC with Win 10 as a test PC for your parents. Go for HDD if you think more space is needed but going with SSD will give a lot faster boot up and loading times, ideal to test out Win 10 and it's features. Also, with this method, the Win 7 on 320GB HDD would be left intact, which you can swap with Win 10 drive any time you'd need to use Win 7.

However, if you don't need Win 7 anymore, just format the 320GB HDD and install Win 10 there.
Starting to partition the current drive to get dual Win installation on single drive (which already has 3x primary partitions and where 4x primary partitions are max due to the MBR format it's using), you'd be overcomplicating the entire process. The more complex it is - the higher of chance it not working.

But to answer your initial question: best (and free) partitioning software is the Windows built-in Disk Management.

 

[Math Geek]

disk management is the first stop as it is built in to windows. plenty of others you can use that do the same thing.

i use this one when disk manager fails to do what i want

https://www.aomeitech.com/aomei-partition-assistant.html

 

[popatim]

Defrag your HDD. Then use Disk management to shrink the exisiting patition and create a new partition in the unallocated space.
Please make sure win10 will actually ruun on the PC befopre you begin as well and making a backup of the pc's current OS in case things go horribly wrong.