Free tools to partition a hard drive / ssd

Admittedly, Windows does not have an intuitive tool to create and manage disk partitions. Many times it is recommended to partition a hard disk to maintain the system on the one hand and the data of applications, documents, games or videos on the other, this is achieved by partitioning a hard disk in 2 or more units.

Free tools to partition a disk

Below we tell you which are the most recommended applications to manage the partitions of a hard disk or SSD.

EASEUS Partition Master Free

EASEUS Partition Master Free supports hard drives with up to 4TB of space, so you can use it to manage basically any partition. It also has the ability to move the operating system to an SSD, which is a very useful feature.

EASEUS Partition Master is available free of charge.

Paragon Partition Manager

This application has the particularity of using the Metro interface that became popular in Windows 8. It also comes with a handy feature called 'automatic partition alignment' , which automatically aligns partitions to improve the performance of the storage device.

Paragon Partition Manager is another one of the free applications.

Active Partition Manager

Active Partition Manager has support for SSD drives with the ability to format FAT and NTFS. Active Partition Manager also has some features that might be of interest to more advanced users, such as the ability to edit partition tables directly at the H E X level, something that cannot be done with other applications.

GParted Disk Partition

GParted partition disks supports a wide variety of formats, not only for Windows, but for other operating systems, too. It is compatible with: NTFS file system on Windows, the FAT file system, and ext2, ext3, ext4 and file systems used on Linux.

Additionally, Gparted has functionality for recovering lost data on deleted partitions. These is another of the completely free applications.