How to Move Free Space from One Partition to Another in Windows 8 or 8.1 with Ease?
Free space, also called free capacity or unused space, is the rest amount of stored information of a partition.
The difference between unallocated space and free space is that, free space is space available within a partition and you can not use Windows 8 built-in disk management tool to create a new partition in free space or merge free space to another partition directly. But, this article is going to discuss how to reallocate free space from one partition to another in Windows 8 with free partition software, and on the condition that need not switch free space to unallocated space.
Why need to move free space in Windows 8?
The space of C drive which you allocate is reasonable in your mind when partitioning a hard disk in windows 8. But, when C drive is nearly full of Windows 8 and some other programs, it will run out of space and the available space is on the decline.
However, the contiguous partition D has enough unused space, so moving some free space in D partition to C drive in Windows 8 is the best solution to extend C drive.
Move free space with Partition Magic Windows 8
AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional (PA Pro), as Partition Magic Windows 8, has the most welcoming and versatile hard disk partition management features on MBR and GPT disk, such as Partition Manager, three easy-to-use wizard: Disk & Partition Copy Wizard and Extend Partition Wizard.
The built-in "Allocate Free Space" function of this software supports move free space from one partition to another without destroying any information.
Download the demo version of AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional. Also, you could download freeware AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard Edition and use "Resize Partition" function or "Extend Partition Wizard" to indirectly realize the "Allocate free space" operation.
Tips: AOMEI Partition Assistant is also fully compatible with the latest Windows 8.1, and the steps of moving free space in Windows 8.1 are the same as those to move free space in Windows 8.
Step1: Install and launch AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard Edition.
Step2: Select D drive that has adequate unused space. Then, right click on it and select "Allocate Free Space".
In the pop-up window, choose the amount of free space (heres 15GB) you want to move to another partition (heres C).
Step3: Click "OK". You can see that 15GB free space has been moved to C drive. Click "Apply" to commit the operations.
AOMEI Partition Assistant also offers some other useful ways to move free space from one partition to another in Windows 8, such as resize/move partition, merge partitions, split partitions, clone disk, copy partition, dynamic disk management, etc. Now Download AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional Edition and try it out.