User:JohnAlbertRigali/Sandbox/Comparison of disk partitioning software
This is a comparison of disk-partitioning utilities.
| Name | Publisher | Operating system | Interface | License type | Maintained? | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Acronis Disk Director | Acronis |  Windows
|
graphical | Proprietary | yes | |
| Active@ Partition Manager | LSoft Technologies | Windows
|
graphical | Free software | yes | |
| AOMEI Partition Assistant | AOMEI Technology | Windows[Notes 1]
|
graphical | Proprietary[Notes 2] | yes | available in five different editions: Home Edition (freeware), Professional Edition, Server Edition, Unlimited Edition and Tech Edition.[1] |
| BeOS Partition Manager | Be Inc. | BeOS | ? | Proprietary part of BeOS |
? | |
| BootIt Bare Metal | TeraByte | OS-independent[Notes 3] | graphical | Proprietary | yes | formerly known as BootIt Next Generation |
| bootman | Be Inc. | BeOS | ? | Proprietary part of BeOS |
? | |
| bootpart | Microsoft | Windows
|
command-line | Proprietary part of Windows |
? | command-line tool that repairs NTLDR |
| Cfdisk | ? |  Linux
|
text-mode | Free software | ? | fdisk wrapped in a ncurses interface |
| Cute Partition Manager | OSL | Cross-platform[Notes 4] | Windows: graphical MS-DOS: ? Linux: ? |
Free software | ? | |
| Data Lifeguard Tools | Western Digital | Windows MS-DOS |
? | Proprietary Included with a Western Digital hard disk or storage product |
? | |
| Disk Druid | ? | Fedora
|
? | Open source | ? | Fedora frontend for GNU Parted |
| Disk Utility | Apple Inc. |  Mac OS
|
graphical and command-line | Proprietary part of MacOS |
yes | |
| Disk Utility (Palimpsest) | David Zeuthen | Linux
|
graphical | Open source | ? | Udisks graphical front-end that is part of the base distribution in Fedora 11 (and later) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and CentOS 6. |
| DiskDrake | Mandriva | Mandriva Linux
|
? | Open source | ? | |
| diskpart | Microsoft | Windows
|
command-line | Proprietary part of Windows |
? | text-mode command interpreter that manages disks, partitions, and volumes[2] |
| EASEUS Partition Master | CHENGDU Yiwo Tech Development | Windows[Notes 1]
|
graphical | Proprietary[Notes 2] | yes | available in four different editions: Home Edition (freeware), Professional Edition, Server Edition and Unlimited Edition.[3] |
| Fdisk (FreeDOS) | Brian Reifsnyder | FreeDOS | text-mode | Open source | ? | |
| fdisk (Microsoft) | Microsoft | Windows MS-DOS |
text-mode | Proprietary part of Windows and MS-DOS |
? | |
| fdisk (OS/2) | IBM | OS/2 | ? | Proprietary part of OS/2 |
? | |
| fdisk (Unix-like) | ? | ? | command-line | Open source | ? | – Linux Administration and Privileged Commands Manual |
| FIPS | Arno Schäfer | MS-DOS FreeDOS |
text-mode | Open source | ? | partition splitter for primary partitions only |
| GNU Parted | ? | Linux
|
command-line | Open source | ? | – Linux Administration and Privileged Commands Manual |
| GParted (Gnome Partition Editor) | SourceForge community managed by Curtis Gedak and Steven Shiau | Linux with livecd OS-independent[Notes 3] |
graphical | Open source | ? | GNOME frontend for GNU Parted |
| KDE Partition Manager | ? | Linux
|
graphical | Open source | ? | KDE frontend for GNU Parted |
| Large Drive Tools (LDT) | SA Development | OS-independent[Notes 3] | text-mode | Proprietary shareware | ? | |
| Logical Disk Manager (Disk Management Console) | Microsoft | Windows
|
graphical | Proprietary part of Windows |
? | |
| Maxblast | Maxtor | Windows
|
graphical | Proprietary included with a Maxtor hard disk or storage product |
? | |
| ntfsresize | Linux-NTFS Project | Linux
|
? | Open source | ? | non-destructively resizes NTFS filesystems |
| O&O PartitionManager Pro | O&O Software | Windows
|
graphical | Proprietary | yes | |
| Paragon Partition Manager | Paragon Software Group | Windows
|
graphical | Proprietary | ? | formerly known as 7Tools Partition Manager?;[4] also included in Paragon Hard Disk Manager Suite[5] |
| Parted Magic | Patrick Verner | OS-independent[Notes 3] | ? | Open source | ? | Live CD environment that allows users to use cfdisk, fdisk, gdisk, gpart, GParted, parted and sfdisk[6] |
| Partition Commander | Avanquest Software | ? | ? | Proprietary | yes | |
| Partition Genius | Spotmau | Windows
|
graphical | Proprietary | ? | |
| Partition Genius | Wondershare Software | Windows
|
graphical | Proprietary | yes | contained in Wondershare WinSuite[7] |
| Partition Logic | J. Andrew “Andy” McLaughlin | OS-independent[Notes 3] | graphical | Free software | ? | distro creates Visopsys boot medium bundled with Partition Logic |
| the Partition Resizer | John “Zeleps” Lagonikas | Windows MS-DOS? |
graphical | Free software | ? | |
| Partition Wizard | MiniTool Solution Ltd. | Windows[Notes 5]
|
graphical | Proprietary[Notes 6] | ? | five different Windows editions[8] and a bootable CD edition.[9] Home Edition and Bootable CD editions are available free of charge. Other editions are commercial products. |
| Partition-It! | Quarterdeck | ? | ? | Proprietary | no | |
| PartitionGuru | Eassos | ? | ? | Proprietary | yes | formerly known as DiskGenius |
| PartitionMagic and ServerMagic | Symantec | Windows
|
graphical | Proprietary | no (last version released May 5, 2004; discontinued as of December 8, 2009)[10] | |
| PartitionStar | star-tools.com | Windows MS-DOS |
Windows: graphical MS-DOS: ? |
Proprietary shareware | ? | |
| QtParted | ? | Linux
|
graphical | Open source | ? | Qt frontend for GNU Parted |
| Ranish Partition Manager | Mikhail Ranish | FreeDOS MS-DOS OS-independent (SystemRescueCd)[Notes 3] |
text-mode (it is nearly as user-friendly and efficient as possible when including advanced information) | Proprietary | ? | shows the locations of EBRs, displays the partition table in a CHS format, can boot partitions, can create bit-identical clones, is used when more than 4 primary partitions are desired, and may convert logical drives to primary partitions and vice versa. |
| Rohos Mini Drive | Tesline-Service S.R.L. (formerly Teslain ltd.) | Windows
|
graphical | Free software | yes | creates password-protected virtual partitions on USB drives |
| SeaTools | Seagate | Windows
|
graphical | Proprietary Included with a Seagate hard disk or storage product |
yes | |
| Solaris format utility | Sun Microsystems | Solaris | ? | Proprietary part of Solaris |
yes | |
| Super Fdisk | CHENGDU Yiwo Tech Development | MS-DOS | ? | Free software | yes | |
| PTDD Super Fdisk (AKA Super Fdisk Bootable CD) | PTDD Group (for CHENGDU Yiwo Tech Development) | OS-independent[Notes 3] | ? | Free software | yes | only supports FAT32, FAT16 and Extended partitions |
| SwissKnife Premium[11] | CompuApps[12] | Windows
|
graphical | Proprietary shareware | yes | |
| TestDisk[13] | Christophe Grenier | Cross-platform[Notes 7] | ? | Free software | ? | primarily designed to recover lost partitions |
| Wondershare Disk Manager Free[14] | Wondershare Software[15] | Windows
|
graphical | Free software | yes |
- ^ a b Partition Master Home Edition is available for 32-bit versions of Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Vista. Partition Master Professional Edition is also available for 64-bit versions of Microsoft Windows XP and Windows Vista. Partition Master Server Edition and Unlimited Edition are also available for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008.
- ^ a b Partition Master Home Edition is available free of charge. Partition Master Professional Edition, Server Edition and Unlimited Edition are commercial products.
- ^ a b c d e f g This program does not run in the context of the operating system and maintains a pre-boot execution environment of its own.
- ^ Cute Partition Manager runs on Microsoft Windows, MS-DOS and Linux.
- ^ Partition Wizard Home Edition and Partition Wizard Business Edition run on Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7. Partition Wizard Server Edition and Partition Wizard Enterprise Edition also run on Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and Microsoft Windows Server 2008. Partition Wizard Bootable CD runs outside the context of the operating system and maintains its own pre-boot execution environment.
- ^ Partition Wizard Home Edition, Business Edition and Bootable CD are available free of charge. Partition Wizard Server Edition or Enterprise Edition are available as commercial products.
- ^ TestDisk runs on Microsoft Windows, Linux, Mac OS, MS-DOS, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and Sun Solaris
References
- ^ "Compare AOMEI Partition Assistant Editions". AOMEI Technology. Retrieved 21 October 2009.
- ^ Microsoft TechNet DiskPart article
- ^ "Compare EASEUS Partition Master Editions". CHENGDU YIWO TECH DEVELOPMENT. Retrieved 21 October 2009.
- ^ "7Tools Partition Manager 2005". Paragon Software Group. Retrieved 8 December 2011.
- ^ "Hard Disk Manager 11 Suite". Paragon Software Group. Retrieved 8 December 2011.
- ^ "Programs – Parted Magic; A Free Partitioning Tool". PartedMagic.com. 19 March 2009. Retrieved 21 October 2009.
- ^ "Wondershare WinSuite 2012". Wondershare Software. Retrieved June 18, 2012.
- ^ "Compare Editions – Partition Wizard". MT Solutions Ltd. Retrieved 21 October 2009.
- ^ "Partition Wizard Bootable CD". MT Solutions Ltd. Retrieved 21 October 2009.
- ^ http://www.symantec.com/norton/partitionmagic
- ^ "SwissKnife Premium". CompuApps. Retrieved 8 December 2011.
- ^ "Corporate Information". CompuApps. Retrieved 8 December 2011.
- ^ "TestDisk, Data Recovery". TestDisk Official Website – cgsecurity.org. 7 October 2009. Retrieved 21 October 2009.
- ^ "Disk Manager Free". Wondershare Software. Retrieved 6 December 2011.
- ^ "Wondershare". Wondershare Software. Retrieved 6 December 2011.
See also
Category:Disk partitioning software Category:Lists of software