List of disk partitioning software

This is a list of disk partitioning utilities.

Name Publisher Operating system Interface License type Notes
Acronis Disk Director[1] Acronis Windows graphical Proprietary
Active@ Partition Manager[2] LSoft Technologies Windows graphical Free software
AOMEI Partition Assistant[3] AOMEI Technology Windows[Notes 1] graphical Proprietary[Notes 2] available in five different editions: Home Edition (freeware), Professional Edition, Server Edition, Unlimited Edition and Tech Edition.[4]
BeOS Partition Manager Be Inc. BeOS ? Proprietary
part of BeOS
BootIt Bare Metal[5] TeraByte[6] OS-independent[Notes 3] graphical Proprietary formerly known as BootIt Next Generation
bootman Be Inc. BeOS ? Proprietary
part of BeOS
bootpart Microsoft Windows command-line Proprietary
part of Windows		 Command-line tool which repairs the NTLDR
Cfdisk ? Linux text-mode Free software fdisk wrapped in a ncurses interface
Cute Partition Manager[7] OSL [8] Cross-platform[Notes 4] Windows: graphical
MS-DOS: ?
Linux: ?		 Free software
Data Lifeguard Tools Western Digital Windows
MS-DOS		 ? Proprietary
Included with a Western Digital hard disk or storage product
Disk Druid ? Fedora ? Open source Fedora frontend for GNU Parted
Disk Manager Free[9] Wondershare Software[10] Windows graphical Free software
Disk Utility[11] Apple Inc. Mac OS graphical and command-line Proprietary
part of MacOS		 Can create new partitions and resize existing ones with no data loss. Can clone partition data including hidden files, to another partition of different size
Disk Utility (Palimpsest) David Zeuthen Linux 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 Mandriva Linux ? Open source
diskpart Microsoft Windows command-line Proprietary
part of Windows		 DiskPart.exe is a text-mode command interpreter that enables you to manage (disks, partitions, and volumes). [12]
EASEUS Partition Master[13] CHENGDU Yiwo Tech Development Windows[Notes 1] graphical Proprietary[Notes 2] available in four different editions: Home Edition (freeware), Professional Edition, Server Edition and Unlimited Edition.[14]
Fdisk (FreeDOS)[15] Brian Reifsnyder FreeDOS text-mode Open source
fdisk (Microsoft) Microsoft Windows
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) [16] command-line Open source fdisk(8) – Linux Administration and Privileged Commands Manual
FIPS Arno Schäfer MS-DOS text-mode Open source Partition splitter (for primary partitions only).
GNU Parted ? Linux 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[17] Linux with livecd
OS-independent[Notes 3]		 graphical Open source

GNOME frontend for GNU Parted
KDE Partition Manager ? Linux graphical Open source

KDE frontend for GNU Parted
Large Drive Tools (LDT)[18] SA Development[19] OS-independent[Notes 3] text-mode Proprietary shareware
Logical Disk Manager (Disk Management Console) Microsoft Windows graphical Proprietary
part of Windows
Maxblast Maxtor Windows graphical Proprietary
Included with a Maxtor hard disk or storage product
ntfsresize Linux-NTFS Project Linux ? Open source non-destructively resizes NTFS filesystems
O&O PartitionManager Pro[20] O&O Software Windows graphical Proprietary
Paragon Partition Manager[21] Paragon Software Group Windows graphical Proprietary formerly known as 7Tools Partition Manager?;[22] also included in Paragon Hard Disk Manager Suite[23]
Parted Magic[24][25] Patrick Verner[26] OS-independent[Notes 3] ? Open source a Live CD environment that allows users to use cfdisk, fdisk, gdisk, gpart, GParted, parted and sfdisk.[27]
Partition Genius[28] Spotmau[29] Windows graphical Proprietary
Partition Logic[30] J. Andrew “Andy” McLaughlin[31] OS-independent[Notes 3] graphical Free software distro creates Visopsys boot medium bundled with Partition Logic
the Partition Resizer[32] John “Zeleps” Lagonikas[33] Windows
' 'MS-DOS? ' '		 graphical Free software
Partition Wizard[34] MiniTool Solution Ltd. Windows[Notes 5] graphical Proprietary[Notes 6] Partition Wizard comes in five different editions for Microsoft Windows[35] and a bootable CD edition.[36] Home Edition and Bootable CD editions are available free of charge. Other editions are commercial products.
PartitionMagic and ServerMagic[37] Symantec Windows graphical Proprietary PartitionMagic is discontinued as of December 8, 2009. (Last version was released May 5, 2004.)
PartitionStar[38] star-tools.com[39] Windows
MS-DOS		 Windows: graphical
MS-DOS: ?		 Proprietary shareware
QtParted ? Linux graphical Open source Qt frontend for GNU Parted
Ranish Partition Manager Mikhail Ranish (runs immediately from SystemRescueCd)
FreeDOS
MS-DOS		 text-mode (it is nearly as user-friendly and efficient as possible when including advanced information) Proprietary is sector-precise, 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[40] Tesline-Service S.R.L. (formerly Teslain ltd.) Windows graphical Free software creates password-protected virtual partitions on USB drives
SeaTools Seagate Windows graphical Proprietary
Included with a Seagate hard disk or storage product
Solaris format utility[41] Sun Microsystems Solaris ? Proprietary
part of Solaris
Super Fdisk[42] CHENGDU Yiwo Tech Development MS-DOS ? Free software
Super Fdisk Bootable CD[43] CHENGDU Yiwo Tech Development OS-independent[Notes 3] ? Free software
SwissKnife Premium[44] CompuApps[45] Windows graphical Proprietary shareware
TestDisk[46] Christophe Grenier Cross-platform[Notes 7] ? Free software Primarily designed to recover lost partitions
  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 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

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