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This is a comparison of disk-partitioning utilities.

Name Publisher Operating system Interface License type Maintained? Notes
Acronis Disk Director Acronis inlineWindows graphical Proprietary yes
Active@ Partition Manager LSoft Technologies inlineWindows graphical Free software yes
AOMEI Partition Assistant AOMEI Technology inlineWindows[Notes 1] graphical Proprietary[Notes 2] yes available in five different editions: Home Edition (freeware), Professional Edition, Server Edition, Unlimited Edition and Tech Edition.[1]
BeOS Partition Manager Be Inc. BeOS ? Proprietary
part of BeOS 		?
BootIt Bare Metal TeraByte OS-independent[Notes 3] graphical Proprietary yes formerly known as BootIt Next Generation
bootman Be Inc. BeOS ? Proprietary
part of BeOS 		?
bootpart Microsoft inlineWindows command-line Proprietary
part of Windows 		? command-line tool that repairs NTLDR
Cfdisk ? inlineLinux text-mode Free software ? fdisk wrapped in a ncurses interface
Cute Partition Manager OSL Cross-platform[Notes 4] Windows: graphical
MS-DOS: ?
Linux: ? 		Free software ?
Data Lifeguard Tools Western Digital inlineWindows
MS-DOS 		? Proprietary
Included with a Western Digital hard disk or storage product 		?
Disk Druid ? inlineFedora ? Open source ? Fedora frontend for GNU Parted
Disk Utility Apple Inc. inlineMac OS graphical and command-line Proprietary
part of MacOS 		yes
Disk Utility (Palimpsest) David Zeuthen inlineLinux graphical Open source ? Udisks graphical front-end that is part of the base distribution in Fedora 11 (and later) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and CentOS 6.
DiskDrake Mandriva inlineMandriva Linux ? Open source ?
diskpart Microsoft inlineWindows command-line Proprietary
part of Windows 		? text-mode command interpreter that manages disks, partitions, and volumes[2]
EASEUS Partition Master CHENGDU Yiwo Tech Development inlineWindows[Notes 1] graphical Proprietary[Notes 2] yes available in four different editions: Home Edition (freeware), Professional Edition, Server Edition and Unlimited Edition.[3]
Fdisk (FreeDOS) Brian Reifsnyder FreeDOS text-mode Open source ?
fdisk (Microsoft) Microsoft inlineWindows
MS-DOS 		text-mode Proprietary
part of Windows and MS-DOS 		?
fdisk (OS/2) IBM OS/2 ? Proprietary
part of OS/2 		?
fdisk (Unix-like) ? ? command-line Open source ? fdisk(8) – Linux Administration and Privileged Commands Manual
FIPS Arno Schäfer MS-DOS
FreeDOS 		text-mode Open source ? partition splitter for primary partitions only
GNU Parted ? inlineLinux command-line Open source ? parted(8) – Linux Administration and Privileged Commands Manual
GParted (Gnome Partition Editor) SourceForge community managed by Curtis Gedak and Steven Shiau inline Linux with livecd
OS-independent[Notes 3] 		graphical Open source ? GNOME frontend for GNU Parted
KDE Partition Manager ? inlineLinux graphical Open source ? KDE frontend for GNU Parted
Large Drive Tools (LDT) SA Development OS-independent[Notes 3] text-mode Proprietary shareware ?
Logical Disk Manager (Disk Management Console) Microsoft inlineWindows graphical Proprietary
part of Windows 		?
Maxblast Maxtor inlineWindows graphical Proprietary
included with a Maxtor hard disk or storage product 		?
ntfsresize Linux-NTFS Project inlineLinux ? Open source ? non-destructively resizes NTFS filesystems
O&O PartitionManager Pro O&O Software inlineWindows graphical Proprietary yes
Paragon Partition Manager Paragon Software Group inlineWindows graphical Proprietary ? formerly known as 7Tools Partition Manager?;[4] also included in Paragon Hard Disk Manager Suite[5]
Parted Magic Patrick Verner OS-independent[Notes 3] ? Open source ? Live CD environment that allows users to use cfdisk, fdisk, gdisk, gpart, GParted, parted and sfdisk[6]
Partition Commander Avanquest Software ? ? Proprietary yes
Partition Genius Spotmau inlineWindows graphical Proprietary ?
Partition Genius Wondershare Software inlineWindows graphical Proprietary yes contained in Wondershare WinSuite[7]
Partition Logic J. Andrew “Andy” McLaughlin OS-independent[Notes 3] graphical Free software ? distro creates Visopsys boot medium bundled with Partition Logic
the Partition Resizer John “Zeleps” Lagonikas inlineWindows
MS-DOS? 		graphical Free software ?
Partition Wizard MiniTool Solution Ltd. inlineWindows[Notes 5] graphical Proprietary[Notes 6] ? five different Windows editions[8] and a bootable CD edition.[9] Home Edition and Bootable CD editions are available free of charge. Other editions are commercial products.
Partition-It! Quarterdeck ? ? Proprietary no
PartitionGuru Eassos ? ? Proprietary yes formerly known as DiskGenius
PartitionMagic and ServerMagic Symantec inlineWindows graphical Proprietary no (last version released May 5, 2004; discontinued as of December 8, 2009)[10]
PartitionStar star-tools.com inlineWindows
MS-DOS 		Windows: graphical
MS-DOS: ? 		Proprietary shareware ?
QtParted ? inlineLinux graphical Open source ? Qt frontend for GNU Parted
Ranish Partition Manager Mikhail Ranish FreeDOS
MS-DOS
OS-independent (SystemRescueCd)[Notes 3] 		text-mode (it is nearly as user-friendly and efficient as possible when including advanced information) Proprietary ? shows the locations of EBRs, displays the partition table in a CHS format, can boot partitions, can create bit-identical clones, is used when more than 4 primary partitions are desired, and may convert logical drives to primary partitions and vice versa.
Rohos Mini Drive Tesline-Service S.R.L. (formerly Teslain ltd.) inlineWindows graphical Free software yes creates password-protected virtual partitions on USB drives
SeaTools Seagate inlineWindows graphical Proprietary
Included with a Seagate hard disk or storage product 		yes
Solaris format utility Sun Microsystems Solaris ? Proprietary
part of Solaris 		yes
Super Fdisk CHENGDU Yiwo Tech Development MS-DOS ? Free software yes
PTDD Super Fdisk (AKA Super Fdisk Bootable CD) PTDD Group (for CHENGDU Yiwo Tech Development) OS-independent[Notes 3] ? Free software yes only supports FAT32, FAT16 and Extended partitions
SwissKnife Premium[11] CompuApps[12] inlineWindows graphical Proprietary shareware yes
TestDisk[13] Christophe Grenier Cross-platform[Notes 7] ? Free software ? primarily designed to recover lost partitions
Wondershare Disk Manager Free[14] Wondershare Software[15] inlineWindows graphical Free software yes
  1. ^ a b Partition Master Home Edition is available for 32-bit versions of Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Vista. Partition Master Professional Edition is also available for 64-bit versions of Microsoft Windows XP and Windows Vista. Partition Master Server Edition and Unlimited Edition are also available for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008.
  2. ^ a b Partition Master Home Edition is available free of charge. Partition Master Professional Edition, Server Edition and Unlimited Edition are commercial products.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g This program does not run in the context of the operating system and maintains a pre-boot execution environment of its own.
  4. ^ Cute Partition Manager runs on Microsoft Windows, MS-DOS and Linux.
  5. ^ Partition Wizard Home Edition and Partition Wizard Business Edition run on Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7. Partition Wizard Server Edition and Partition Wizard Enterprise Edition also run on Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and Microsoft Windows Server 2008. Partition Wizard Bootable CD runs outside the context of the operating system and maintains its own pre-boot execution environment.
  6. ^ Partition Wizard Home Edition, Business Edition and Bootable CD are available free of charge. Partition Wizard Server Edition or Enterprise Edition are available as commercial products.
  7. ^ TestDisk runs on Microsoft Windows, Linux, Mac OS, MS-DOS, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and Sun Solaris

References

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  1. ^ "Compare AOMEI Partition Assistant Editions". AOMEI Technology. Retrieved 21 October 2009.
  2. ^ Microsoft TechNet DiskPart article
  3. ^ "Compare EASEUS Partition Master Editions". CHENGDU YIWO TECH DEVELOPMENT. Retrieved 21 October 2009.
  4. ^ "7Tools Partition Manager 2005". Paragon Software Group. Retrieved 8 December 2011.
  5. ^ "Hard Disk Manager 11 Suite". Paragon Software Group. Retrieved 8 December 2011.
  6. ^ "Programs – Parted Magic; A Free Partitioning Tool". PartedMagic.com. 19 March 2009. Retrieved 21 October 2009.
  7. ^ "Wondershare WinSuite 2012". Wondershare Software. Retrieved June 18, 2012.
  8. ^ "Compare Editions – Partition Wizard". MT Solutions Ltd. Retrieved 21 October 2009.
  9. ^ "Partition Wizard Bootable CD". MT Solutions Ltd. Retrieved 21 October 2009.
  10. ^ http://www.symantec.com/norton/partitionmagic
  11. ^ "SwissKnife Premium". CompuApps. Retrieved 8 December 2011.
  12. ^ "Corporate Information". CompuApps. Retrieved 8 December 2011.
  13. ^ "TestDisk, Data Recovery". TestDisk Official Website – cgsecurity.org. 7 October 2009. Retrieved 21 October 2009.
  14. ^ "Disk Manager Free". Wondershare Software. Retrieved 6 December 2011.
  15. ^ "Wondershare". Wondershare Software. Retrieved 6 December 2011.

See also

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Category:Disk partitioning software Category:Lists of software


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