Unique 1 Second Rollback technology - automatically reverts computer to original status in a flash if encounter any error.Its free edition is 100% free to home users without any bundled advertisement or plugins.Available operations to highlighted disk or partition are listed on the left.Ĭomparing with other disk management tool for Windows 10 computer, NIUBI Partition Editor has more advantages such as: All disks are displayed on the bottom with partition layout. Single partitions are listed on the top with detailed parameters. You can do advanced operations for Windows 11/10/8/7/Vista/XP home computer easily for free.ĭownload the free edition and you'll see all storage devices in the main window. With free partition manager software such as NIUBI Partition Editor, you can resize partitions without so many limitations. Unallocated space can't be combined to the right or any non adjacent partitions.

Extend Volume can expand a drive only when there is adjacent Unallocated space behind it.Unallocated space can only be made on the right side when shrinking a partition.Only the partitions formatted as NTFS or without file system (RAW) can be shrank and extended.Although it has advanced 'Shrink Volume' and 'Extend Volume' functions, it does little help to adjust partition size. It cannot move, merge, convert, clone, wipe partition and scan bad sectors. Windows 10 Disk Management can only do basic operations to create, delete and format partition.

It is important to a server, but to personal computers, rebooting is not a problem. However, as I explained above, dynamic disk volumes has no much sense nowadays.Īnother 'real' advantage is that Shrink Volume function can shrink a partition without rebooting computer. Advantages of Windows 10 Disk ManagementĬomparing with free partition software, Windows 10 Disk Management has the ability to create and manage dynamic disk volumes. are not achieved by Operating System but RAID controller. The benefits of mirror, faster read and write, fault-tolerant, etc. Price of hard disks and other hardware devices are much lower, you'd better build hardware RAID arrays. It uses much resources of this computer and degrade performance. Though Windows Disk Management has this ability, but it is not suggested to use dynamic disk volumes, because: There are only two in my computer, so this option is grayed out. To create RAID 5 volume, there must be at least 3 dynamic disks. Disk Management can create Simple, Mirrored, Spanned, Stripped and RAID-5 volume.

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