I've used various free and paid partition managers over the years in Windows and Linux. Many free partition manager can do the same as today's giveaway. Some of them even provide more functions than today's giveaway. I will stick with what works for me as well as is free forever, not only free today. My top 2 choice are:
#1 AOMEI Partition Manager Free: http://www.disk-partition.com/free-partition-manager.html
#2 GParted: http://gparted.org

Zbigniew  –  10 years ago  –  Ritieni questo commento utile? sì | no (+39)

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I already had this as I got the same version as a giveaway a few months.

It works as stated, but you can do a lot more with other patitioning software, e.g. from EaseUS of AOMEI. As a result you might want to give this is a miss, if you've already got some partioning software installed.

Roger  –  10 years ago  –  Ritieni questo commento utile? sì | no (+31)

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Windows has its own Partition Software, so its useless

rewgerg  –  10 years ago  –  Ritieni questo commento utile? sì | no (-29)

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rewgerg
It's not if you need to resize a woring partition or merge 2 where there's data in between. Windows cannot do that

<b>rewgerg</b> It's not if you need to resize a woring partition or merge 2 where there's data in between. Windows cannot do that
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MM  –  10 years ago  –  Ritieni questo commento utile? sì | no (+20)

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Several years ago, partitioning tools were commercial software, and some were quite expensive. Recently companies like 'Aomei' and 'EaseUS' have given us free tools. This sector of the software industry is quite competitive.
Again, several years ago, most PCs had one hard drive (20 MB?) so partitions weren't strictly necessary. Some people liked a D drive for documents, E drive for games, F for movies, etc. As hard drive space has increased, and operating systems have got more 'closed' (most users shove files on their desktop or 'my documents') sectioning a disk into partitions has fallen by the wayside.
I would recommend most users should partition their drives into at least two partitions - a system partition for the operating system (drive C) and documents (drive D). This allows the operating system to be backed up via partition imaging tools such as Aomei Backupper (excellent software) without the bloat of movies, downloads, etc, which would be backed up independently. Again, nothing much went wrong with Windows 3.1 or Windows 95. However, these days, a Windows Update can easily knobble a PC so regular backups are HIGHLY recommended.
So, every user should have a partition manager in their toolbox. Most are as good as each other - so long as you can cut a partition in half, merge partitions or move them, they are the key functions. The primary thing to look at is are the programs regularly updated? The 'big guns' like Aomei and EaseUS release new versions quite regularly to keep up with each other - they don't want to be left behind.
Todays software is free, so not to be sniffed at. IM is a good brand - not as low as 'Morning Flake' if you're looking at cereals, but not as good as 'Kelloggs'.

Chris Locke  –  10 years ago  –  Ritieni questo commento utile? sì | no (+20)

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ptyson
Rarely had problems with Windows 3.1 and if I did it was possible to repair without losing all the software on my machine, unlike everything since Windows 95.

In fact did my postgraduate work using 3.1 and never had to backup my system, only the work I was doing in the software.

The Windows registry destroyed this capability and rather than upgrade from XP I will probably go to Linux.

<b>ptyson</b> Rarely had problems with Windows 3.1 and if I did it was possible to repair without losing all the software on my machine, unlike everything since Windows 95. In fact did my postgraduate work using 3.1 and never had to backup my system, only the work I was doing in the software. The Windows registry destroyed this capability and rather than upgrade from XP I will probably go to Linux.
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XP-Man  –  10 years ago  –  Ritieni questo commento utile? sì | no (+15)

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