Free Disk Management Software for Windows 11, 10, 8, And 7

A powerful free disk management software for Windows 11 and other Windows systems is necessary. This post aims to provide you with a reliable partition manager to manage disks and partitions easily and safely.

Posted by @Dervish December 17, 2024 Updated By @Dervish May 12, 2023

Why need a free disk management software in Windows 11?

Generally speaking, disk management software is very important for personal computers. Because when we use the computer, we will encounter various problems about partitions or disks, such as formatting partitions, deleting partitions, extending partitions, shrinking partitions, converting MBR to GPT and so on.

When these problems occur, we can solve them with some disk management tools. As we all know, Disk Management, Command Prompt and Diskpart are commonly used built-in disk management tools. But neither can fully meet all our needs, because Windows built-in tools have limitations in some special cases, which makes it difficult for us to solve the problem successfully.

Therefore, we need a more professional software to perform advanced operations on the disk or partition. Next, I will introduce you the most powerful free partition manager for Windows 11, 10, 8, 7, Vista, and XP.

What is the best free disk management tool?

As you can see from the above, reliable and free disk management software is necessary to make up for the drawbacks of Windows 11's built-in tools. But for Windows users, facing lots of disk partition management software on the market, which one is the best?

Here, I strongly recommend you to use AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard. It breaks the limitations of Windows built-in tools and makes disk partition management in Windows PC as easy as possible. It has the following advantages:

All-in-one tool: Multiple powerful functions designed by a professional team to meet the different needs of users. ●Compatibility: Compatible with Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10/11 64-bit and 32-bit PC. ●Graphical User Interface: Provides a friendly interface and detailed operation guide, making management tasks very easy. ●High security: Each operation will take effect only after final confirmation, and data will not be lost due to accidental clicks.

In addition to the basic functions of freeing partitions, extending partitions, shrinking partitions, and formatting partitions on hard disks or other storage devices, it can also clone HDD to SSD, convert NTFS to FAT32, and convert a basic disk to dynamic, convert MBR to GPT without data loss, etc.

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Now, download and install this free disk management software for Windows 11. After opening, you can see all the disks and partitions in the main interface, and perform different operations by clicking.

Demonstrate: How does this Windows 11 partition manager work?

Freeing up drive or extending drive is the thing we often need to do. In this part, I'll show you how to use AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard to free up space and extend volume.

▶ Clean junk files to free up space

If you need to free up drive space, you can try the PC Cleaner to clean up junk files on the PC to ensure that the computer has enough space to run.

Step 1. Click "Free up" and "PC Cleaner" in turn. 

Step 2. Click "Start Scan" in the new pop-up window to scan your computer for unwanted files. 

Step 3. After starting the scan, please wait for a while until the progress bar is loaded. 

Step 4. Junk files will be automatically selected, you can directly click "Clean All" to delete them. If you still have other unnecessary files, you can tick the boxes of the corresponding files. 

Step 5. When you see a correct symbol displayed in the interface, you can click "Back" to leave the function. 

Tip: You can even move applications/folders to another drive to free up space after upgrading to AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional.

▶ Extend volume with non-adjacent unallocated space

In Windows built-in tools, you cannot extend volume if there is no adjacent unallocated space to the right of the target partition. But AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard can extend volume when the target partition is not adjacent to the unallocated space.

Step 1. Right-click the C drive, then click "Advanced" and choose “Merge Partitions”.

Step 2. Tick the non-adjacent unallocated space and click “OK”.

Step 3. Click “Apply” to commit the pending operation.

▶ Extend volume with no unallocated space(hot)

How to extend the target partition if there is no unallocated space on the hard drive? Don't worry, this disk partition manager still has a better workaround for you after turning to the Pro Version. Its advanced feature “Allocate Free Space” can allocate free space from one drive to another, so you can extend volume without unallocated space.

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Step 1. In the main interface of AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional, select “Allocate Free Space”.

Step 2. Then type in the size of the free space which you want to cut from D drive and this free space will be directly added into the C drive.

Step 3. You can take a preview of the operation result before confirming start. Click “Apply” to execute this operation.

End line

This is a brief introduction of AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard for Windows 11, 10, 8, 7, Vista, and XP.  If you are looking for a free disk management software in Windows 11, you should not miss it.

Besides, its advanced edition AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional provides more comprehensive functions such as recovering deleted/lost partitions, moving C drive to larger disk, converting primary partition to logical partition, etc. If you are a Windows Server user, Server Edition is suitable for you.