Windows xp format unallocated partition

Unallocated space usually refers to the partition that has not been formatted, so you need to shrink a partition if you want to get some unallocated space on Windows XP. This article will share all ways to create unallocated space and add it to system partition C drive on Windows XP. If you want to create unallocated space on Windows XP, you usually have two choices: 1. Squeeze unallocated space from other partitions by using partition software. Usually, you can use this method if there are many partitions on your Windows XP computer.

First of all, you should move all data from the partition you want to delete to another partition. Of course, you can remain the data on the partition if it is not important to you. What you should know is that all data will be deleted immediately when you delete the partition on your computer.

After moving all data to another partition or storage media, you can open Windows XP Disk Management and delete the partition. The deleted partition will show as unallocated space once the delete is finished on Windows XP. Method 2 : Squeeze unallocated space from partition by using partition software. Choose file system type you need from the Format Partition window and click Format button.

To format ext4, you should choose Ext4 from the drop-down list. Step 4. Click Yes to continue. Wait for several seconds and the formatting will complete.

Windows does not support to read, write or access Linux file system without the help of third-party partition tools. As we all known, Windows users cannot create partitions with these file systems easily in Disk Management. Here, we recommend a free partition tool — DiskGenius Free to fulfill the task.

Alternatively, you can select free disk space and click New Partition button. Note: If there is not free disk space on your drive, you can use DiskGenius shrink one partition to free some disk space. Also, you can just delete a partition whose files have all been backed up. The "Create New Partition" box comes up, and you can select file system type now. To create ext4 partition, you should select Ext4 Linux Data. Then click OK button.

Click Save All button on the upper-left panel to save the new partition to partition table. DiskGenius asks whether to format the partition after it is saved to partition table.

Click Yes and the partition will be formatted quickly. Besides, it provides many other functions to help you manage and access EXT4 Linux partition in Windows 10 , for instance, save data to ext4 partition, delete data from Linux partition, clone EXT4 partition to image, resize Linux partition without losing data, etc.

Then, right click a partition and click Delete Partition to delete the selected partition so that you can get some unallocated space. Right click another partition and click Delete Partition to delete one more partition to get some unallocated space again.

Usually, the two deleted partition will show as an unallocated partition. Now, you can right click the unallocated partition and click New Partition. You need to specify partition size to the new partition. Usually, you can specify the total space of the unallocated partition to the new partition so as to create a new partition.

Or you can only specify some space to the new partition and leave some unallocated space to create one more partition. Assign a drive letter to the new partition and then wait the system to format it. If you want to redistribute disk space on the whole hard disk, you need to delete all partitions except system partition on the hard disk.

After deleting all partitions on Windows XP, you will see an unallocated partition in Disk Management.