Windows 8 can be called an earthshaking innovation of Microsoft, and the most intuitive change of Windows 8 may be the interface, for this operating system abandons traditional Windows interface and adopts Metro style tiled interface. Metro is the combination of rectangle functional interfaces. And various kinds of application programs, shortcuts, or other icons are displayed in desktop as the form of dynamic rectangles, and we can add commonly used browsers, Social Network Sites, and games to these rectangles, giving us fashionable and gorgeous sense of beauty. It is the future development direction of Windows operating system. Besides, "Start" disappears. Instead, when we move mouse cursor to the left bottom, "Start" button pops up. Furthermore, both boot-up speed and running speed of Windows 8 are improved largely. In addition, it supports file encryption and ARM and has built-in photographic software.

Since the release of Windows 8 consumer preview edition, users who like to experience new things have downloaded this operating system to their computer eagerly. However, when using Windows 8, we may meet some troubles. For example, we can not store or install new application programs to a certain partition because of partition space insufficiency. Actually, it is not strange to encounter this kind of problem in Windows 8, and solutions are simple. For instance, we can use Windows 8 built-in disk management tool or third-party partition magic to resize partition for Windows 8. Though Windows 8 built-in disk management tool has made great changes compared with original Windows built-in disk management tools, it is unable to meet actual demands. So, Windows 8 users rarely use it. Contrarily, we are more familiar with third-party partition magic. Therefore, third-party partition magic is recommended to resize partition for Windows 8. And the free partition magic MiniTool Partition Wizard is a good choice.

Resize partition for Windows 8 by using MiniTool Partition Wizard
If we want to use this free partition magic, we should download it from its official website http://www.partitionmanagerserver.com at first, and then install it to the partition where no operation is performed in case of booting computer. Next, run it to resize partition for Windows 8.



In this interface, right click the partition which needs resizing and select "Move/Resize" button from the popup menu.



Since we are going to solve the problem of partition space insufficiency, we need to drag black triangle towards the unallocated space. Besides, we can also input exact value to the textbox of "Partition Size" to resize partition for Windows 8. Next, click "OK" button to skip to the main interface:



From the main interface, we can preview that Windows 8 partition has been extended. After confirmation, please click "Apply" to apply all operation.
To sum up, Windows 8 makes much improvement and innovation in many aspects, but disk management is indispensable for every operating system, so we need a piece of excellent partition magic to manage disk for Windows 8. MiniTool Partition Wizard is compatible with Windows 8 perfectly, and at the same time, this free partition magic has powerful disk management competence which can meet different demands for disk management. It is worth owning this free partition magic.