GParted: Best Free Partition Manager Software for Windows

Many times when we purchase a new computer system or a new hard disk drive, we need to create new partitions or resize existing partitions to install a new operating system such as Windows or Linux distro. If we already have a free disk partition, we can install the OS on it but sometimes we don’t have any free partition. In such cases we need to resize an existing partition to get some free disk space and then create a new partition using that free space to install the OS.

Although Windows comes with a built-in disk manager called “Disk Management” which can be accessed by using diskmgmt.msc command but it’s not an advanced disk manager program. It provides very basic features and can’t be used for advanced hard disk management tasks. So we need a 3rd party partition manager software which can help us in managing partitions of our hard disk drive.

Today in this topic, we are going to share a small and absolutely free partition manager software for Windows.

GParted is a free and all-in-one hard disk partition manager program for Windows operating system which comes with many advanced and useful features to help you in managing hard disk partitions. With the help of GParted, you can resize, copy, and move partitions without data loss. It allows you to:

• Grow or shrink your C: drive
• Create space for new operating systems
• Create, delete, resize or move partitions
• Attempt data rescue from lost partitions

It also allows to manipulate file systems such as:

• btrfs
• ext2 / ext3 / ext4
• fat16 / fat32
• hfs / hfs+
• linux-swap
• lvm2 pv
• nilfs2
• ntfs
• reiserfs / reiser4
• udf
• ufs
• xfs

GParted can be used in Windows, Linux and Mac OS X by booting from media containing GParted Live. A minimum of 256 MB of RAM is needed to use all of the features of the GParted application. This free tool supports all Windows versions such as Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8/8.1 and Windows 10 and can be used to create new partition, resize existing partition or delete, copy, move, format partitions quickly and easily.

You can download it using following link:

Download GParted