Microsoft operating system Windows 8 has a lot of advanced features, such as the touch-based interface of metro style, Windows Store, and so on. However, it does not have much of a breakthrough in Disk Management compared to Windows 7. The built-in disk Manager for Windows 8 only has the following characteristics.
Basic Features:
Create partitions, delete, and format hard drives
Removed drive letter, assign letter to partition
FAT32 is converted to NTFS, and so on.
Advanced Features:
Expand partitions and reduce partitions.
Conversion between basic and dynamic disks.
Converts an empty MBR into a GPT disk, and vice versa.
Converts an empty dynamic disk to a basic disk.
How do I open the WINDOWS8 disk Manager?
It has a variety of ways to access WINDOWS8 Disk Management. Open the Run box by pressing win +[r], enter "Diskmgmt.msc" in the text box, and click OK to quickly open WINDOWS8 Disk Manager.
Use Windows 8 Disk Management to extend partitions and reduce partitions
WINDOWS8 Disk Management has the ability to compress partitions and expand partitions. You can shrink or expand the partition, right-click a partition, select Compress volume or expand Volume, and then enter how much space you want to shrink or enlarge.
Note: You can extend partitions only if there is unallocated space after the partition, otherwise you cannot expand the partition. This is one of the limitations of this time and you need to use a free third-party software, partitioning assistant to help you more flexibly solve the problem of resizing partitions. The following illustration is a screenshot of the Section Assistant.
The partitioning assistant has many excellent disk partition management features, such as Extended Partition Wizard, partition lossless data resizing, MBR and GPT disk transformations, merge partitions, split partitions, migrate operating systems, and so on.