You Already Have Free Partition Software for Windows XP.

Posted on December 6, 2007 
Filed Under XP Tips & Tricks

The Windows Operating Systems keep surprising me (in good and bad ways;)). Today I was preparing another XP Tip and Trick and I found this. I didn’t know this but not only Windows Vista has free partition software but also Windows XP although it is limited.  

This is how to use your own Windows XP inbuilt free partition software.

  • Go to Start
  • Click on all programs
  • Open run
  • Type in “compmgmt.msc” (without the “”) and click on OK or press enter.

 

Free XP partition software

 

 

 

 

  

 

  • Click on Storage – Disk Management and you’ll see your hard disks.

 

Free XP partition software

 

  • Right click on the hard disks that you want to manage and you’ll see several options that you can use.

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Comments

8 Responses to “You Already Have Free Partition Software for Windows XP.”

  1. valter on January 15th, 2008 3:16 pm

    Now, this is something everyone should know long time ago. This is no rocket science, and is not tip or trick. This is well known feature that’s described in any Windows XP book.

  2. Vincent on January 15th, 2008 3:29 pm

    You are absolutely right; this isn’t rocket science but it is for sure a good Tip. At the moment it is in the top 10 of the most viewed posts in Windows XP and its climbing.

    Not all of us have read books about XP;) and I did but I didn’t knew/remembered this.

  3. hendra on March 8th, 2008 3:02 pm

    but this utility can not donating the space from one partition to the other such as partition magic

  4. Vincent on March 9th, 2008 12:52 pm

    You’re right Hendra,

    The XP partition manager is indeed limited. Partition magic and the Free Vista Partition Manager have without a doubt more options. The XP partition manager is great when you have a new install. If you only need to do some basic stuff with it then this manager works excellent and then why pay for Partition Magic?

  5. Kelvin on May 4th, 2008 4:08 am

    I did try that but didn’t work I just installed a new Hard drive to my laptop as the old one was small (30GB) and i put 160 GB and i tried windows xppartition manager but the partition feature just doesn;t highlight

  6. terry on July 9th, 2008 5:43 am

    I google partition manager find some freeware bellow:

    paragon http://www.paragon-software.com
    I have not used,no comment!

    easeus partition manager
    I download from brother soft
    http://www.brothersoft.com/easeus-partition-manager-51814.html

    It worked OK, but failed when i tried to merge partition. so i have to allocated the free space to another partition. Partition magic may merge two partitions which will cost you $69.95

    cute partition manager
    http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/freeware/partition_download.shtml

  7. E.T. Yeow on August 21st, 2008 10:01 am

    I have done exactly what “terry” has done and wonloaded the various softwares BUT still find Partition Magic is needed. However my XP version does not work in Vista!!

  8. Paul T on September 29th, 2008 11:34 am

    I’ve just done a brand new Install of XP home SP3 and this partitioning ability option doesn’t exist - only ‘Open’, ‘Explore’, ‘Change Drive Letter and Paths…’, ‘Properties’, ‘Help’ are available with ‘Mark Partition As Active’, ‘Format’, ‘Delete Partition’ grayed out.

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