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Free Partition Manager for 64 bit Windows (XP, Vista, 7)?

8 February 2010 Posted by whiztech under Uncategorized
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Here is the story. A few weeks ago, my brother asked me to re-partition his new laptop’s hard disk. It is a Dell Studio laptop. At the beginning, I tried to use the popular EASEUS Partition Master Home Edition since it received a lot of positive reviews, but unfortunately the laptop is running on the 64 bit version Windows 7 Home Premium and EASEUS Partition Master Home Edition works only on 32 bit Windows. Then, I tried GParted Live USB, a Linux based partition editor. Again, it was not a success because GParted gives me error whenever I tried to re-partition the hard disk. I don’t exactly know what caused the problem but I can see there is a Dell Backup Utility partition and maybe it had caused the error.

After searching for the alternative, I found Partition Wizard Home Edition. Partition Wizard Home Edition is a free partition manager software for Windows. It is free for personal/home use and the best thing is, it supports the 64 bit version of Windows. Basically, Partition Wizard will let you perform partitioning actions such as create, format, convert, explore, resize, move and copy a partition, like any other partition managers. Partition Wizard is very simple and easy to use.

Because it is free, it is not as powerful as other paid partition manager such as Partition Magic. For example, Partition Wizard only supports FAT, FAT32 and NTFS partitions. This means you cannot use Partition Wizard to create, resize or move Linux EXT2 or EXT3 partitions. As you can see from the image below, the partition (1) is actually a EXT2 partition, and it is shown as other in Partition Wizard. If you are only running Windows on your system then this should not be a problem.

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Partition Wizard Home Edition

 

Partition Wizard is also available as bootable CD. It is Linux based and available as separate download from Partition Wizard website. You will be presented with the same simple Partition Wizard for Windows interface when you are running Partition Wizard from its bootable CD.

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Partition Wizard bootable CD

 

If you are looking for free partition manager for Windows (32 or 64 bit), Partition Wizard is worth to try. Partition Wizard Home Edition is free for personal/home usage.

Partition Wizard Home Edition

blog-partition-wizard-00Developer Description: Partition Wizard Home Edition is a free partition manager software designed by MT Solution Ltd. Our partition manager supports 32/64 bit Windows Operating System including Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7. Home users can perform complicated partition operations by using this powerful yet free partition manager to manage their hard disk. Functions include: Resizing partitions, Copying partitions, Create partition, Delete partition, Format partition, Convert partition, Explore partition, Hide partition, Change drive letter, Set active partition, Partition Recovery, Convert Dynamic Disk to Basic Disk.

Version: 4.2.2

Size: 6.79 MB

License: Free for personal/home use

Operating system: Windows operating systems

Website: www.partitionwizard.com

 

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