Timeless Tales

It has been ages I turned on my home computer. I was welcomed with a nag by Windows saying that my antivirus is out of date. With few days left unattended, my PC had collected dusts. Its now working at snail's pace. So I thought It was time I format my drive and save my PC. Atleast I'll save precious time sitting in front it. Formating & partitioning is such a tedious job to do as I have to move all my collection of movies, songs and softwares to another drive. With loads of jumboes to move, I wasn't ready to take the plunge but then virus problem persisted and it hampered the actvity at my PC. And the worst part of the story I badly needed a hard drive Partition Manager software. Of course, there are too many sharewares in the market but then as a home user I didn't wanted to buy. On the other side I wasn't either thinking of settling for a less. I was looking for a freeware Partitioner Manager that will fit right into my bill. My pursuit for freewares landed me to some real treasures of Internet buried underneth. I have carefully listed some softwares here that will come handy to an enthusiast. The list comprises of few popular ones and rest are some awesome least explored shores. Some of these popular counter part are compatible with Windows 7 too. These list of freeware Partition Manager is exclusively for Windows users which includes all the earlier edition of Windows. Have a look at the freeware Partition Managers.

1) Cute Partition Manager

Cute Partition Manager is a free advanced hard disk partition management utility that allows you to easily add, edit, delete and manage the partitions in your computer. Cute Partition Manager is very easy to use, and one of the best features about it is that It lets you preview the changes before you save them. It lets you edit the boot flag, partition type and other advanced parameters. It gives you total control of your system during the partition process. For example, it lets you edit all existing partitions. It even lets you install all the operating systems from scratch. It supports all versions of Windows (9x,ME,NT,2K,XP,Vista), DOS, Linux, etc.

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2) Easus Partition Manager Home Edition

EASEUS Partition Master is an ALL-IN-ONE partition solution and the easiest and most convenient hard disk partition manager toolkit including Partition Manager, Partition Recovery Wizard and Disk & Partition Copy Wizard for Windows 2000/XP/Vista/Windows 7 and Server 2000/2003/2008. It allows users to Resize/Move Partition, Extend System Drive, Copy Disk & Partition, Merge Partition, Split Partition, Partition Recovery, Redistribute Free Space and much more. You can free enjoy EASEUS Partition Master Home Edition like the commercial Partition Magic software.

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3) Partition Logic

Partition Logic is a free hard disk partitioning and data management tool. It can create, delete, format, and move partitions and modify their attributes. It can copy entire hard disks from one to another. With Partition Logic you can make partitions on your hard disk. Partition Logic is free software, available under the terms of the GNU General Public License. It is based on the Visopsys operating system. It boots from a CD or floppy disk and runs as a standalone system, independent of your regular operating system. Partition Logic is intended to become a free alternative to such commercial programs as Partition Magic, Drive Image, and Norton Ghost.

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4) Partition Manager 2010 Free Edition

Partition Manager 2010 Free Edition, the latest free windows partition software from paragon helps windows user partitioning hard drive within few click. However, this partition manager 2010 free edition provides basic hard drive partitioning features such as create, format, delete and move/resize partitions from various file format like FAT16, FAT32 and NTFS. While partitioning your hard drive with Partition manager 2010, an user friendly wizard will be appear to assist windows user simplify down partitioning task. Meanwhile, the best part of partition manager 2010 free edition is the Paragon Hot Resize technology, which a Resize Partitions Wizard able to increase free space on one partition by up-taking the unused space of an adjacent partition of your hard disk. So, you can easily resize without any data loss and without rebooting Windows.

Beside that, Partition Manager 2010 also provides Recovery Media Builder, which allow you create a Linux/DOS bootable partitioning disc for emergencies use purpose. This bootable partitioning media is very useful, which you can complete a data-sensitive operation (resize, move) if you can’t boot up your windows platform. Moreover, with its help you can save data from partitions of your hard disk directly to compact discs or burn ISO-images.

To install Partition Manager 2010 Free edition, you need to register with Paragon–including your e-mail address. After that, they’ll send you the free product key and serial number you need to complete the install.

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5) eXtended FDisk

Xtended FDisk, or short XFDisk, is a free DOS FDISK replacement that offers more comfort and comes with a bootmanager that allows you to have more than one operating system installed on your hard disk. With XFDisk you can partition your hard disk or install and configure the bootmanager, which will be located in the first 17 sectors of your first hard disk. The bootmanager will not occupy an own partition, so you can fully use the four available primary partitions per hard disk. If you choose to have an extended partition with logical drives on your hard disk, XFDisk transparently manages the extended partition for you. So you don't need to worry about the size of the extended partition any more. Of course, XFDisk and the bootmanager support more than one hard disk and even booting from logical drives. But it must be said clearly that most operating systems that are commonly used on PCs require a primary partition on the first hard disk at least for their boot files. This is true for all versions of DOS and Windows 95/98/ME, but it is also true for Windows NT/2000. However, some operating systems like Linux or OS/2 can boot from virtually any hard disk, even though OS/2 may need its own bootmanager for installation.

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6) Partition Wizard

Partition Wizard, a free Windows partition software that perform more hard disk partition functionality than default Windows partition application. Meanwhile, partition wizard also support raid partition beside of normal hard disk partition. It can perform hard disk operations such Resizing partitions, Copying partitions, Create partition, Delete partition, Format partition, Convert partition, Explore partition, Hide partition, Change drive letter, Set active partition and Partition Recovery. The user interface of Partition Wizard is simple to understand which can easily perform partition operations safely and quickly. The Enhanced Data Protecting technology keeps your data safe even in case of power outages or hardware failure. Beside that, Partition Wizard is a Windows based partition manager that supports both MBR and GUID partition table format running on 32/64 bits Operating System including Windows XP, Vista, Windows Server 2000/2003/2008 and latest Windows 7. Plus more, this partition software is free for commercial and personal use.

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7) GParted Live

GParted is an industrial-strength package for creating, destroying, resizing, moving, checking and copying partitions, and the file systems on them. This is useful for creating space for new operating systems, reorganizing disk usage, copying data residing on hard disks and mirroring one partition with another (disk imaging). GParted Live is a small bootable GNU/Linux distribution for x86 machine. It enables you to use all the features of the latest versions of GParted. GParted Live can be installed on CD, USB, PXE server, and Hard Disk then run on an x86 machine.

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8) Active Partition Manager

Active Partition Manager, a free partition software that perform hard disk partitioning features such as create, resize, move, concatenate, copy, undelete the hard drive partitions that you have on your hard disk. However, Active Partition manager has their advantages compare to other Windows partition software that you don’t need to restart or shutdown your computer system while creating, deleting or formatting hard drive partitions. Beside that, this free active partition manager slide your partition from moving your existing partition from one location on the disk to another location, without losing data. Plus more, this free hard disk partition software able to convert hard disk partition from NTFS to FAT32 or vice versa available on the other Windows partition software.

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9) Ranish Partition Manager

Ranish Partition Manager is a powerful hard disk partitioning tool. It gives users high level of control for running multiple operating systems, such as Linux, Windows 98/XP, FreeDOS, and FreeBSD on a single disk. Partition Manager can create, copy, and resize primary and extended partitions. It includes command line interface and simulation mode that works with large files so you can safely experiment before working on the real hard drive partition tables.

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10) M Mini Partition Magic

M Mini Partition Magic can convert your drives to NTFS without format it or loss your data. select your drive from list and click on convert button to start convert. M Mini Partition Magic is also able to set label on your drives.

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11) SwissKnife

SwissKnife is a free partition management software can format your partition your IDE hard drives upto 120GB and allows creation of FAT32 & NTFS partitions. FAT16 option is provided for compatibility. Plus more, it is capable to partition external hard disk such as Hi-Speed USB, PCMCIA, SATA, SCSI, USB 1.1, and FireWire® external drives.

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