STRENGTHS | Weaknesses |
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Easy-to-use | Doesn’t work for commercial purpose |
Loaded with lots of features. | Requires system restart every time you want to partition the system drive. |
Allows you to upgrade the system drive to a larger HDD. | |
Preview changes before applying. | |
Windows partition tool gets useful updates frequently. | |
Allows you to hide a partition. | |
Supports defragmenting partitions as well. | |
Individual or multiple partitions can be deleted on a disk in one go. |
STRENGTHS | Weaknesses |
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Intuitive, user-friendly interface. | Supports only basic partition edits with the free version. |
Supports GPT/UEFI configurations. | Free for personal use only. |
Optimize hard disk performance during the partitioning process. | Requires you to register to get a serial number. |
Ideal partition editor Windows 10 for novices. | Comparatively, large setup files than other hard disk partition tools. |
Allows you to change without having to restart the PC. | Comparatively, large setup files than other hard disk partition tools. |
Easily undo or redo changes before applying them. |
STRENGTHS | Weaknesses |
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Proffers easy-to-understand wizard | Advanced features are only available with the pro version. |
Queues all your changes in a list and doesn’t apply them until you implement them manually. | Cannot convert dynamic disks to basic disks. |
Works with the hard drive that doesn’t have an OS installed. | |
You can easily merge, split & hide partitions without losing data. | |
Allows you to convert file systems to and from NTFS & FAT32. | |
Easily restore lost or deleted partitions. | |
Has both standard and professional version to suit one’s needs and requirements. |
STRENGTHS | Weaknesses |
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Wide Compatibility; Windows 10/8/7/Vista/XP | Unlike other HDD partition tool, Tenorshare doesn’t allow users to clone or split partitions. |
Supports external hard drive, USB drive, etc. | Boring interface comparatively to other HDD partition software. |
Supports conversion between FAT, EXT, NTFS, HFS and so on. | |
Changes are applied virtually before being implemented. |
STRENGTHS | Weaknesses |
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Supports both Windows and Mac OS. | You can only use this hard drive partition software after burning it to a disk or USB device. |
Recover deleted or lost partitions easily and efficiently. | Old-Fashioned interface. |
Compatible with X86 and X86-64 computers that run on Windows, MacOS or Linux. | |
Requires just 300 MB of space. | |
Doesn’t require a reboot to apply the changes. |
STRENGTHS | Weaknesses |
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Lightweight & entirely free. | Lacks cloning partition feature. |
Works with all popular file systems and can work with UFS, HFS+ and EX2/EXT3/EXT4 partitions. | Doesn’t allow to resize locked partitions, that means you can’t change the size of system volumes. |
S.M.A.R.T feature to get information about hard drive health. | Cluttered interface! |
Compatible with Windows 10/8/7/Vista/XP. | |
Allows you to view advanced attributes of a partition, logical drive or hard disk drive. | |
Allows you to convert MBR to GPT for better recovery options and overall versatility. |
STRENGTHS | Weaknesses |
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Easy-to-use hard disk partition tool. | Most advanced features are available with the updated version. |
Supports all common partition functions. | |
Allows you to expand System partition as well without a reboot. | |
A surface test can be run to identify bad sectors. | |
Allows you to alter the partition attributes, such as drive letter and volume labels. | |
Comes in portable version too. | |
Lost & deleted partitions can easily be restored using Partition Recovery Wizard. | |
Use the slider to resize the partition or enter the value to partition into the right size. |