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Kitassen
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Jun 19, 2025

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

Hi everyone, I'm currently managing a Windows PC (Windows 11 PC and Windows 10 laptop) and I need to make some changes to my disk partitions. I want to resize existing partitions, possibly create ne...
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Gaoken
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Jun 19, 2025

GNU Parted is the low-level engine that powers GParted, but it can run standalone as a free disk partition manager on Windows. Although the official project targets Linux, Windows users can access it in two practical ways:

  1. WSL 2 / MSYS2 builds – pacman -S parted under MSYS2 or a WSL Fedora/Ubuntu distro installs a native Windows-compatible binary that can operate on physical drives (/dev/sdX) exposed to the VM.
  2. WinPE/Live USB images – Many live toolkits (Ultimate Boot CD, SystemRescue) bundle Parted, letting you drop to a shell and use it directly.

Parted excels at scripting complex jobs (e.g., create GPT → make 100 MiB EFI FAT32 → 16 GiB Microsoft reserved → rest NTFS), understands both traditional and advanced 4 Kn sector disks, and even handles exotic labels such as Apple Core Storage or Solaris x86. It is now the best free disk partition software for Windows 11 and Windows 10.

If you want the smallest toolset and cross-platform scripts for disk partition between Linux servers and Windows workstations, Parted delivers. Its limitations mirror those of any raw CLI utility: no preview queue and minimal safeguards so keep current backups before you press Y.

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