Nowadays, many of you use a computer to deal with some things in work and life. However, after using the computer for a long time, the hard disk performance gets very low. Usually, your computer runs in a slow speed. If you open your Windows Disk Management, you may find the disk is running out of space. Therefore, to optimize disk performance should be a good choice. But, how to achieve this aim? Take it easy. This post will introduce you a professional free partition manager to help you get the best hard drive performance.
 

How to Improve Hard Disk Performance

Partition Your Hard Drive

 
Generally speaking, the disk space on a partition is a main factor for disk performance. If there is low disk space issue on your hard drive, the performance is very low. Therefore, you should partition your hard drive to get more disk space. Do you know how to increase partition size? Maybe you say using Disk Management, but the feature Extend Volume greyed out issue often appears. Therefore, a third-party program is worth recommending. MiniTool Partition Wizard Free Edition – a piece of professional partition software is a good assistant for partition extension. This free tool provides two features to extend partition, such as “Extend” feature and “Move/Resize”. Here take the first function as an example.
 
Step 1: Launch MiniTool Partition Wizard Free Edition and then select “Extend Partition” after selecting the target partition. Here take system partition as an instance.
 
Step 2: Then select a destination disk where you can take some free disk space. The destination space can be a partition as well as unallocated space on a same disk.
 
Step 3: Go back to the main interface, and then hit “Apply” to execute all changes.
 

 

Migrate OS to SSD

 
In addition, SSD becomes a common data storage device due to its advantages, especially the high read-write speed. So to migrate your Windows operating system to SSD is a good solution for a high disk performance. MiniTool Partition Wizard also has such a feature to do OS migration. This partition magic makes this work very easy and effective. Just click “Migrate OS to SSD/HD” feature after selecting the target partition C, and then do a OS migration according to the wizard followed by.
 

 

Align Partition

 
Besides, there is another important factor which is your partitions on a hard drive are not aligned. And then read-write speed gets slowly, so disk performance is probably low. In this case, MiniTool Partition Wizard Free Edition also has a feature called “Align All Partitions”.
 

 
These three ways are useful to optimize disk performance with MiniTool Partition Wizard Free Edition. In addition, there are another ways to help speed up hard drive, such as enable AHCI mode, turn off page file and more. For more information, click this article How to Get Best Performance from SSD in Windows 10/8/8.1/7.