{"id":2855,"date":"2019-09-22T19:39:10","date_gmt":"2019-09-22T14:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.igadgetsworld.com\/news\/?p=2855"},"modified":"2019-09-22T19:42:30","modified_gmt":"2019-09-22T14:12:30","slug":"top-5-best-free-disk-management-software-tools-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.igadgetsworld.com\/news\/top-5-best-free-disk-management-software-tools-windows\/2855\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 5 best free disk management software tools for Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Disk management is a Microsoft Management Console extension that allows management of all disk-based hardware that Windows recognizes. People use disk management to manage the drives they install in computers such as internal and external hard disk drives, flash drives and optical disk drives. People use it to format drives, partition drives, and assign patterns. Some people might incorrectly refer to it as Disc management.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Disk management is available in many versions of Microsoft Windows such as Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10 and even on Windows 2000. Even though Disk Management comes with most operating systems of Windows, each version comes with a few differences. The best way to access the disk management on your computer is through Computer Management utility. You can also start it by executing the <em>diskmgmt.msc<\/em> through the Command Prompt or the Command-line interface on Windows.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Using disk management on Windows OS<\/span><\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2856\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2856\" style=\"width: 975px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2856\" src=\"https:\/\/www.igadgetsworld.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/disk-management-windows-10.png\" alt=\"-\" width=\"975\" height=\"650\" title=\"-\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.igadgetsworld.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/disk-management-windows-10.png 975w, https:\/\/cdn.igadgetsworld.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/disk-management-windows-10-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.igadgetsworld.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/disk-management-windows-10-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/cdn.igadgetsworld.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/disk-management-windows-10-696x464.png 696w, https:\/\/cdn.igadgetsworld.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/disk-management-windows-10-630x420.png 630w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 975px) 100vw, 975px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2856\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Disk Management on Windows 10 | Image Courtesy: Lifewire<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are two sections of the Disk Management \u2013 the bottom and top. <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>The top section contains<\/strong> the partitions you have formatted and those you have not formatted \u2013 the partitions Windows recognizes. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>The bottom section contains<\/strong> graphical representations of all the physical drives you have installed on your computer.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The menus and panes of Disk Management are customizable. You can change your top pane to function as the graphical representation and then disable your bottom pane. Use your View menu to change where you display the changes in Disk Management. Likewise, there are other tools which have better features compared to in-built disk management utility tool on Windows OS. Here are the 5 best alternative software tools for disk management.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Top 5 best free disk management software tools for Windows<\/h2>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1. EaseUS Partition Master Home Edition <\/span><\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2857\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2857\" style=\"width: 696px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2857 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.igadgetsworld.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/EaseUS-Partition-Master-Disk-Management-1024x751.png\" alt=\"-\" width=\"696\" height=\"510\" title=\"-\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.igadgetsworld.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/EaseUS-Partition-Master-Disk-Management-1024x751.png 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.igadgetsworld.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/EaseUS-Partition-Master-Disk-Management-300x220.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.igadgetsworld.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/EaseUS-Partition-Master-Disk-Management-768x564.png 768w, https:\/\/cdn.igadgetsworld.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/EaseUS-Partition-Master-Disk-Management-80x60.png 80w, https:\/\/cdn.igadgetsworld.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/EaseUS-Partition-Master-Disk-Management-696x511.png 696w, https:\/\/cdn.igadgetsworld.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/EaseUS-Partition-Master-Disk-Management-1068x784.png 1068w, https:\/\/cdn.igadgetsworld.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/EaseUS-Partition-Master-Disk-Management-572x420.png 572w, https:\/\/cdn.igadgetsworld.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/EaseUS-Partition-Master-Disk-Management-1145x840.png 1145w, https:\/\/cdn.igadgetsworld.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/EaseUS-Partition-Master-Disk-Management.png 1202w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2857\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image Credits: EaseUS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you have to manage partitions, create boot disks or manage copy partitions, the EaseUS Partition Master Home Edition is a perfect choice. Today, it is among the highly ranked hard drive management software programs offered on most websites because it is more intuitive than the inbuilt Windows Disk Management functions. It offers many additional features and options too.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It allows you to merge your disk partitions, merge partitions, wipe partitions, check partitions, change the label and resize partitions. When you need a platform to perform some advanced tasks like conversion of partitions or cloning them, you will need to upgrade your version to the paid version. You can always try their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.easeus.com\/partition-manager\/epm-free.html\" rel=\"noopener\">free edition for testing<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2. MiniTool Partition Wizard\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2858\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2858\" style=\"width: 696px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2858\" src=\"https:\/\/www.igadgetsworld.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/minitool-partition-wizard-free-edition-disk-management-1024x794.jpg\" alt=\"-\" width=\"696\" height=\"540\" title=\"-\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.igadgetsworld.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/minitool-partition-wizard-free-edition-disk-management-1024x794.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.igadgetsworld.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/minitool-partition-wizard-free-edition-disk-management-300x233.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.igadgetsworld.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/minitool-partition-wizard-free-edition-disk-management-768x595.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.igadgetsworld.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/minitool-partition-wizard-free-edition-disk-management-696x539.jpg 696w, https:\/\/cdn.igadgetsworld.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/minitool-partition-wizard-free-edition-disk-management-542x420.jpg 542w, https:\/\/cdn.igadgetsworld.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/minitool-partition-wizard-free-edition-disk-management.jpg 1040w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2858\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image Credits: neow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The MiniTool Partition Wizard is a disk formatting and partitioning utility that is not only simple to use but also more effective. It offers a straightforward interface and works efficiently when it comes to changing the complex formatting options to simple ones.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The MiniTool Partition Wizard supports <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Windows 10<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and almost all file formats like EFI boot, UEFI, GPT disk, MBR, SSDs and RAID storage. The software will help you extend your partitions, convert file systems, migrate the OS from the standard HDDs to SSDs. Try their free edition by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.partitionwizard.com\/free-partition-manager.html\" rel=\"noopener\">downloading it from here<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">3. WinDirStat Portable\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2859\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2859\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2859\" src=\"https:\/\/www.igadgetsworld.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/WinDirStatPortable-Disk-Management.png\" alt=\"-\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" title=\"-\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.igadgetsworld.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/WinDirStatPortable-Disk-Management.png 800w, https:\/\/cdn.igadgetsworld.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/WinDirStatPortable-Disk-Management-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.igadgetsworld.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/WinDirStatPortable-Disk-Management-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/cdn.igadgetsworld.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/WinDirStatPortable-Disk-Management-80x60.png 80w, https:\/\/cdn.igadgetsworld.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/WinDirStatPortable-Disk-Management-160x120.png 160w, https:\/\/cdn.igadgetsworld.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/WinDirStatPortable-Disk-Management-265x198.png 265w, https:\/\/cdn.igadgetsworld.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/WinDirStatPortable-Disk-Management-696x522.png 696w, https:\/\/cdn.igadgetsworld.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/WinDirStatPortable-Disk-Management-560x420.png 560w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2859\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image Credits: PortableApps<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When shopping for a hard drive, you might think that your 250GB hard drive will suffice. However, after a short period of heavy use, you realize that the remaining space is minimal. Filling up your hard drive with unnecessary stuff is very easy but the cleaning part is hard. With many directories and folders, it can be hard to know the things taking up most of your space.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rocketfiles.com\/windows\/utilities-and-tools\/disk-management\/windirstat\/portable\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">WinDirStat Portable<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> helps you identify such files easily. The program will scan your hard drives and display a summary of everything that is taking up your disk space in the form of colorful graphics. It will assign each file a color according to the type \u2013 ZIP, EXE, MP3, JPEG, etc \u2013 in squares that are small or large depending on the space each file is using. After you have pinpointed the storage hogs, WinDirStat will allow permanent deleting of the files in the app.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">4. HP Disk Storage Format Utility<\/span><\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2860\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2860\" style=\"width: 325px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2860\" src=\"https:\/\/www.igadgetsworld.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/HP-Disk-Format-utility-tool-disk-management.jpeg\" alt=\"-\" width=\"325\" height=\"418\" title=\"-\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.igadgetsworld.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/HP-Disk-Format-utility-tool-disk-management.jpeg 325w, https:\/\/cdn.igadgetsworld.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/HP-Disk-Format-utility-tool-disk-management-233x300.jpeg 233w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 325px) 100vw, 325px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2860\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image Credits: CCM<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even though the market offers a wide range of disk management software that focuses solely on the formatting of external hard drives, the HP Disk Storage Format is focused on USB devices like flash drives. The simple formatting utility tool has only a few options, but it is more effective and it has enjoyed many positive reviews. You can download to <a href=\"https:\/\/filehippo.com\/download_hp_usb_disk_storage_format_tool\/\" rel=\"noopener\">test it from here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">5. AOMEI Partition Assistant<\/span><\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2861\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2861\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2861\" src=\"https:\/\/www.igadgetsworld.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/AOMEI-Partition-Assistant-Disk-Management.jpg\" alt=\"-\" width=\"800\" height=\"590\" title=\"-\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.igadgetsworld.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/AOMEI-Partition-Assistant-Disk-Management.jpg 800w, https:\/\/cdn.igadgetsworld.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/AOMEI-Partition-Assistant-Disk-Management-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.igadgetsworld.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/AOMEI-Partition-Assistant-Disk-Management-768x566.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.igadgetsworld.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/AOMEI-Partition-Assistant-Disk-Management-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/cdn.igadgetsworld.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/AOMEI-Partition-Assistant-Disk-Management-696x513.jpg 696w, https:\/\/cdn.igadgetsworld.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/AOMEI-Partition-Assistant-Disk-Management-569x420.jpg 569w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2861\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image Credits: CNET<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The AOMEI Partition Assistant is another recommendable partition manager. It offers most of the features you expect with the other programs in the list and it comes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.disk-partition.com\/download.html\" rel=\"noopener\">as a free version<\/a>. Moreover, it is among the regularly updated. That is true for all the programs we have mentioned in this list. And if your goal is to complete a single task, which the software does not support, try a different one before making a purchase.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Disk management is a Microsoft Management Console extension that allows management of all disk-based hardware that Windows recognizes.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2862,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_appearance_grid":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,104],"tags":[751,750,327,221,61],"class_list":{"0":"post-2855","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-5","8":"category-software","9":"tag-disk-management-software","10":"tag-disk-management-tools","11":"tag-free-software","12":"tag-software","13":"tag-top-5","14":"cs-entry","15":"cs-video-wrap"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.igadgetsworld.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.igadgetsworld.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.igadgetsworld.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.igadgetsworld.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.igadgetsworld.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.igadgetsworld.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.igadgetsworld.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.igadgetsworld.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.igadgetsworld.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.igadgetsworld.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}