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The page focuses on discussing free disk partition software for Windows 10/8/7/Vista/XP. Choose correct disk partition software and you can easily manage disk space and partitions for PC, Server and Workstation, keeping your ever-growing data organized and speeding up your computer. DiskGenius free can be your choice of disk partition software, and it makes it easy to complete all kinds of operations about disk & partition.

DiskGenius - Free disk partition software to resize partition, clone disk, wipe disk, check bad sectors, etc.

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About disk partition software

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Partitions are separated sections on hard drive to store data. Managing disk partition properly is one of the most important aspects to keep computer running at its best. Multiple partitions enable users to segregate data based on categories, for example, you can install operating system on one partition and keep multimedia data like movies and music in another partition. Partitioning a disk to two or more partition is a great solution to allocate data to specific location and keep operating system drive nice and neat. You can also format partitions into two different file system formats if you want to use them under different platforms, for instance, you may want to dual-boot your computer with Windows and Linux, you'll have to partition hard drive into at least two partitions, and format them to NTFS and Ext4 file system. In addition, you may want to shrink or extend system partition which might not be partitioned with reasonable size.

Disk partition software enables you to create, delete, resize, split partition on hard drives or USB drive. Although Windows Disk Management provides basic functions to manage disk space, it is not effective enough to deal with complicated situations, such as split partition, hide partition, clone disk/partition, convert GPT/MBR without losing data, permanently wipe data, convert primary/logical partition, quick partition a disk, etc. Thus, disk partition software is still preferred by both average and advanced users.

Top-ranking disk partition software

DiskGenius is one of the popular disk partition manager software for Windows 10/8/7/Vista/XP, and it covers almost all functions you might use related to managing disk and partition. Though it is a Windows partition manager, it has full support of Linux file system, including Ext2, Ext3 and Ext4. DiskGenius has three editions, and the free edition has included nearly all functions on disk partitioning.

Main features of DiskGenius disk partition program:

Manage partition & disk: create/delete/format/resize/extend/split/hide/active partition, delete all partitions at one shot, allocate free disk space to partition, assign drive letter, set volume name, change volume serial number, modify partition parameter and so on.
Convert disk/partition without data loss: convert primary/logical partition, convert GPT/MBR disk, convert dynamic to basic disk, convert virtual disk format among VMDK/VHD/VDI, etc.
Data backup utilities: clone disk/partition, image disk/partition, back up partition table, incremental backup, etc.
Disk utilities: check & repair bad sectors, edit hex data, wipe hard drive and partition, permanently delete data, rebuild MBR, view S.M.A.R.T. information, copy sectors, create Win-PE based bootable USB disk, etc.
Data recovery: recover deleted/lost/formatted files, lost partition recovery, RAW drive recovery, recover deleted partition, RAID recovery, etc.
Supported devices: hard drive, external hard drive, USB flash drive, SSD, memory card, pen drive, virtual disk, etc.
Supported file system: FAT32, FAT16, FAT12, exFAT, NTFS, EXT2, EXT3 and EXT4
Supported OS: Windows 10/8.1/8/7/Vista/XP & Server 2016/2012/2008/2003

In the rest part of the article, we'll have a discussion on some common operations on disk & partition management. You can follow these guides to manage your partition and improve performance.

How to Partition a hard drive with free disk partition software?

With DiskGenius you can quickly repartition a hard drive or flash drive into multiple partitions with desired partition table even if the disk contains partitions already. Due to disk repartition process removes everything on the disk and causes data and partition loss, you need to create a backup for important data before executing this function. To partition / repartition a disk, you can use the Quick Partition function:

Launch DiskGenius and select the disk you want to repartition and click 'Quick Partition' button from toolbar and the Quick Partition window opens up.

Till this procedure you can make your own decisions, for example, partition table style, partition count, partition size, volume label, file system type, 4K sector alignment, etc. Just set these settings bases on your actual needs. If you are not specialized in such configurations, you can follow default settings. Click OK button from the lower right corner and DiskGenius starts to partition the selected disk.

Note: It is not allowed to partition the hard drive where operating system is located when Windows is running. Therefore, if you want to repartition hard drive and reinstall Windows, you need to boot to WinPE to complete the task. DiskGenius supports creating Win-PE based bootable disk which can help you boot to WinPE system.

Free disk partition software helps to resize partition without losing data

To make best of disk space you may want to resize partition, extend partition, shrink partition or split partition in Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, etc. Though Windows has a built-in functionality in Disk Management to expand or shrink partition, it is not powerful enough to deal with various such as low disk space issue.

It happens your hard drive might not be properly partitioned, and you may encounter 'Low Disk Space' issue which says 'You are running very low on disk space on Local Disk (C:). Click here to see if you can free space on this device' or 'You are running out of disk space on system (C:). To free space on this drive by deleting old or unnecessary files, click here…' Facing such issue, you can try deleting some unnecessary files or move files to another drivea. Alternatively, you can extend the partition to remove the low disk space issue.

DiskGenius is capable of changing partition size without data loss, and it provides a couple of options to meet different requirement: resize partition, extend partition, split partition, etc. Changing partition size can be done to partition which is formatted to NTFS, FAT32, FAT16, FAT12, exFAT, EXT2, EXT3 and EXT4. Now we'll use third-party disk partition software to resize partition.

Step 1 Right-click on the partition you want to change its size and select 'Resize Partition'.

Note: 'Resize Partition' can shrink the selected partition and move disk space to other partitions; if you just want to expand the partition, then select 'Extend Partition'; 'Split Partition' will divide the partition into two smaller partitions.

Step 2 Set the amount of disk space you want to move and select which partition to merge the space. The click Start button to move disk space.

Disk space can be spared from both sides of the partition, and the screenshot above shows DiskGenius is moving 36.31GB disk space from the rear part of the partition, and then merge it to partition Document (J:). Besides, you can also choose to create a new partition or just leave it as unallocated. After clicking Start button, you'll receive message telling operations to be done, click OK to continue.

How to allocate free space with disk partition software without data loss?

As we all know, Unallocated /free disk space cannot be used to store data before

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