Go out and buy a brand new hard drive and it's going to be huge. No doubt it ships with one large partition and you'll want to re-configure as smaller partitions, perhaps one to host your media and another for your work. Partitioning within Windows isn't easy and, up until recently, there weren't too many options available. It was commercial software or nothing and, as you only partition your drive every few years, an expensive purchase is probably out of the question, particularly for home users.

EASEUS Partition Manager 3.5 Home Edition is the free version of the popular commercial partition manager. It's designed to partition existing Windows-partitioned drives: create new, resize old or copy a partition from one drive to another. You can also use the tool to give your partition a different drive letter, convert from FAT32 to NTFS and so on.

EASEUS Partition Manager link.

31 Mar 2009