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The free Home Edition works on Windows 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8 (both 32 and 64 bit systems). You can copy an entire disk or a partition easily to back up all your data. You can expand, resize, and move partitions from one physical part of a drive to another. You can create, delete, and restore partitions. I recommend that you check out these very capable, user-friendly and free alternatives.Īmong third-party free partition managers, the Home Edition of EASUS Partition Manager is a favorite.
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You can shrink a partition to make unallocated space for another new partition, but you can only enlarge (extend) an existing partition if the free space is located after the partition. The disk partitioning tools that come with Vista and Windows 7 go a little bit further. You can format a drive partition label it rename it create it if there is unallocated space on the physical drive or delete it. Windows XP comes with the Disk Management utility, which you can access by entering diskmgmt.msc in the Start>Run box.
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If you want to learn how to create, delete, resize or merge partitions, read on.
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Then there are free partition managers that do just about everything you could wish. Commercial partition managers cost a lot and are not used much. Some partition management tools are built into Windows, but they can’t do everything. There are also some dissenting views in the reader comments, so take it all in before you decide. But before you start carving up your hard drive, see my companion article Partitioning Your Hard Drive for my philosophy on partitioning. So how can you create, resize, and manage partitions on your hard drive? With a partition manager of course.