Freeware for Windows

Category : Free disc uttility software ...

See also Free data recovery section.

For advanced users only! Ranish Partition Manager is a powerful hard disk partitioning tool. It gives users high level of control for running multiple operating systems, such as Linux, Windows 98/XP, FreeDOS, and FreeBSD on a single disk. Partition Manager can create, copy, and resize primary and extended partitions. It includes command line interface and simulation mode that works with large files so you can safely experiment before working on the real hard drive partition tables.
Producer / download / (136 KB) / Freeware


A GUI explorer tool for accessing ext2 and ext3 filesystems. It runs under all versions of Windows and can read almost any ext2 and ext3 filesystem.
Producer / download / (387 KB) / Open Source


Disk fragmentation leads to system slowdowns, PC crashes, slow startup and shutdown and sometimes to system failures. This program is designed for fast optimization of today's modern hard disks. Get the maximum performance out of your expensive hardware investments. Windows XP Home and Professional, 2000/2003 and Vista supported.
Producer / download (1,6 MB) / Freeware


RawWrite (or rawrite) is an essential tool for creating boot disks and other floppy disk images.
Producer / download / (210 KB) / Open Source


Free defragmentation software. What’s the primary cause of slow/unstable PC performance? It’s disk fragmentation. This program helps defragment your hard drive. It eliminates slow downs, freeze-ups and crashes. Designed for Windows 2000, XP and Vista. Multilanguages.
Producer / download / (1,9 MB) / Freeware


It enabling you to quickly and simply defrag the files you want to, without having to process the whole drive. Simply run it, select the file and defragment in seconds. Portable version. It supports Windows Vista. It has only few features but it's precise in work.
Producer / download / (384 KB) / Freeware





A little but very fast powerful open source defragmentation tool. Defragmenting is done by kernel-mode driver. The clear GUI is very useful, because visually represents your filesystem as a color coded cluster map. It can be used on Windows 2000, XP, Server 2003 and Vista (on the 64-bit editions too). It is written in C.
Producer / download / (105 KB) / GPL


Program to recover the partition deleted accidentally. It has simple and instructive UI. Neither DLLs is needed. Compatible with Windows 2000/XP/Vista, supports NTFS and FAT32 file systems. See also "data recovery" section.
Producer / download / (180 KB) / Freeware


A Windows based free partition manager. Users of Partition Wizard can perform complicated partition operations to manage their hard disk. Options include: resizing, copying, create, delete, format, convert, explore, and hide partitions, change drive letter, set active partition, partitions recovery and convert dynamic disk to basic disk. More about Partition Wizard.
Producer / Download from producer's site / (6,8 MB) / Freeware (depend of version)


An industrial-strength package for creating, destroying, resizing, moving, checking and copying partitions, and the filesystems on them. Is works as LiveCD. This is useful for creating space for new operating systems, reorganizing disk usage, copying data residing on hard disks and mirroring one partition with another (disk imaging). Supports filesystems: FAT16, FAT32, ext2, ext3, NTFS, hfs, hfs+, jfs, Linux Swap, ReiserFS, Reiser4, ufs, xfs. It is written in C++
Producer / download / (90,6 MB) / GNU GPL

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