Free Software for Partition Manager

Question

Free Software for the Partition Manager on Windows XP/vista?

Answer 1

Try GParted Live. You can create a Boot CD and use that to work with partitions.

Answer 2

Windows Vista now has a built in partition manager. You can access it like this:

1. Go to Control Panel / Administrative Tools / Computer Management.
2. Then go down to Storage / Disk Management. That brings up your drives.
3. Now you can just select a partition within a drive.
4. Right click it and you'll have options to Shrink, Extend or Delete it. The former two show a popup detailing what size you'd like.

More info here.

Answer 3

Easeus Partition Master is an excellent tool, and the Home version is free! It has a bunch of useful features. I've been using it for a little while, and still cannot believe they give it away for free. You should definitely try it out.

Answer 4

Parted Magic is pretty easy to use, and free

http://partedmagic.com/

Answer 5

Cue Partition Manager is a very basic windows solution that is easy to use.

Answer 6

Paragon Drive Backup 9.0 Free Edition - You can do almost everything with this free edition

Answer 7

System Rescue CD has a nice GUI (type startx after you boot) to manage your partitions. You need to simply boot the CD and then select the partition manager.