Maintaining and servicing your device
7.5 Installing the software
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Operating Instructions, 11/2020, A5E37455003-AF
7.5.2.3
Adapting partitions in Windows 7 Ultimate and Windows Embedded Standard 7
With the disk management, you can adapt the partitioning of your drives.
You can reduce or delete an available partition to acquire unassigned memory space, which
you can use to set up a new partition or to increase an existing partition.
Note
Data lost in the case of deleting a partition!
If you delete a partition, all the data on this partition is lost.
Back up your data before you change partitions.
Requirement
You are logged on as an administrator.
Procedure - Reduce partition
A partition can only be reduced if sufficient space is available.
1.
Click with the right mouse button on the partition to be reduced and click on "Reduce size".
2.
Follow the instructions.
Procedure - Increase partition
Note
To increase a partition, this partition must not be formatted with a file system or the partition
must be formatted with an "NTFS" file system.
1.
Click in the partition manager with the right mouse button on the partition to be increased
and click on "Increase size".
2.
Follow the instructions on the screen.
Additional information is available in the "Help" menu under "Help topics" and "Search".
