


Macrium, Acronis, Paragon, EaseUS, AOMEI, etc all use a similiar engine with some API tweaks. We ended up using EaseUS as a standard, but simply because it has a generous technicians license. Even if virtual or on a SAN the small system partitions cause fragmentation issues and excessive iOPS overhead.Īfter our chief engineer bricked two different client servers with Gparted he was told to either stop using it or be fired. Dell's are the worst because they sold OEM Server 2008 boxes for the longest period with 40GB system partitions. In a two month period I probably did 30 of the things for all platforms.

Resizing C: partitions become quite chronic at a MSP I was contracting for a few years ago. Most have those bootstrap / utility partition in the way. A Windows Server that *only* has a C: drive (system) and D: partition is rare. Some people even create a third-partition for their personal media.Gparted, like all the rest of the open source tools isn't aware of the various Windows bootstrap and utility partitions and will leave you in a lurch. On many machines, you'll see a primary partition holding Windows and partition made by the manufacturer that contains recovery media. If a drive has multiple partitions, each partition will appear as a separate drive on your computer. A drive must contain at least one partition before it works, but many computers' hard drives contain multiple partitions. In short, a partition is a region on any storage media. If you're already feeling a bit lost, keep reading. If you already know what a disk partition is, feel free to skip this section. We're going to introduce you to six of the best free partition managers for Windows. If you really want to grasp control of your disk partitions, you need to look elsewhere. Furthermore, it lacks some the features of some of the best third-party apps. Creatively called Disk Management, it's functional but uninspiring. Windows comes with a native disk partition manager.
