SMART (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology) My other favorite freebie is Easeus Partition Manager Home: It’s professional in appearance and has all the features I generally need. Offering an extremely small footprint and very quick boots, Partition Logic seems to work fine, at least with internal IDE drives. You need to visit the command prompt twice during the boot process, but I have on occasion found that GParted Live boots when the Parted Magic disc will not–and vice versa. If you don’t need memory testing, or if you just want an alternative Linux partitioning boot disc, GParted Live is a slightly lighter-weight boot disc that also supports booting from a USB flash drive or an external hard drive. I’d say that I encounter about one memory problem for every three hard drive problems, so it’s nice to have that memory-diagnostic tool around. Of all the partition utilities I’ve reviewed, Parted Magic (now in version 6) remains my top pick–not only because it has the free Gnome partition tool (GParted), but also because it has Memtest86+. The vast majority of the time, I want something fast and graphical that supports all file systems.
WINDOWS 8 DISK MAINTENANCE UTILITY FOR FREE
Microsoft’s DiskPart–included for free on each Vista or Windows 7 installation disc–is a perfectly viable tool for manipulating FAT and NTFS partitions, but only if you’re in a command-line kind of mood. (For links to all of the downloads in one convenient list, see our “10 Best Free Hard-Drive Utilities” collection.) Partitioning Despite offering some high-end features, these downloadable programs won’t bust your budget. Here are our ten favorite free utilities for partitioning, monitoring, and optimizing hard drives (as well as a few inexpensive for-pay alternatives). Since you’re reading this, though, you’re obviously not a “most” type of user.
Most users are satisfied with the hard drive utilities that ship with Windows–especially the more powerful partitioning and defragging tools found in Windows Vista and 7.
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