What is the best disk partition software for Windows 11/10 now?

Disk Management is the free and built-in disk partition manager (first introduced in Windows XP and still present in Windows 10/11) that lets you view and configure internal drives, external disks, and removable media without installing other disk partition software.

Below is a list of advantages and disadvantages of this free disk partition software on Windows 11/10.

Pros

No installation and no cost. Because it ships with every edition of Windows, it’s immediately available—even in WinRE or Safe Mode sessions—making it ideal for emergency fixes.

Graphical safety nets. Context-menu wizards walk you through operations, reducing the risk of command-line mistakes. The color-coded layout (blue for primary, green for extended, black for unallocated) gives at-a-glance clarity.

Low-level tasks still allowed. You can mark a partition active, change drive letters, or bring a disk online/offline—useful when juggling hot-swapped drives or dual-boot setups.

Cons

No live resize across file-system boundaries. You can shrink only from the “right-hand” end of a partition and only if contiguous free blocks exist; complex rearrangements (e.g., moving the recovery partition) require third-party tools or DiskPart scripting.

No support for non-Microsoft file systems. exFAT, NTFS, and FAT32 are handled well, but ext4, XFS, APFS, or Btrfs volumes appear as “RAW,” forcing Linux or macOS users to look elsewhere for safe edits.

No RAID or dynamic-disk creation on Windows 11 Home. Dynamic disks are effectively deprecated, and Storage Spaces covers only mirrored/striped pools—leaving power users who want simple software RAID-0/5 on desktop editions with limited options.

Operations can be destructive without confirmation granularity. Deleting or formatting a volume offers only a single “Are you sure?”—there’s no automatic snapshot or rollback (unlike some third-party managers).