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DiskGenius

DiskGenius is full-featured partition manager. It also lets you edit UEFI entries with ease, so if you want to install a different bootloader like Clover, DiskGenius can help set it up quickly.

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  • Freemium (Pay once)
  • Proprietary

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  • Windows
  • Apple TV
Create New Partition
Right Click on a Partition
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Format Partition
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Comment summary: DiskGenius is praised for its professional-level tools, providing effective solutions for data recovery and disk management. Users appreciate its features like migrating OS to SSD for free, repairing bad sectors, and BitLocker unlocking. Concerns arise over pricing and the limitation of its 'free' version prompting users to consider alternatives like G-Parted. Recent updates include EXT4 support, enhancing its utility for Linux users.
Top Positive Comment
ichimitch
3

Supports resizing ext4 partitions from in Windows

Top Negative Comment
TBayAreaPat
0

I appreciate that this program has special features that help some people, but I advise the average person to avoid this program.. especially if cloning. There's too many serious pitfalls that are easy to fall into, and there's far easier cloning programs to use like HDClone. Past Experience: Had to do the OpSystem Migration twice Lesson: Grab the old drive out of the computer before restarting! Disk Genius should give warning. Check that you get all your files.. ..particularly in Downloads and other Users. Recent Experience Nov 2024: Tried OS migration I got this message: "The system migration feature temporarily does not support migrating the system partition located on the MBR disk that boots in UEFI mode." I cloned the drive instead, and made the mistake of toying/clicking the USB boot option. Not only did it turn the clone into USB boot, which wasn't working on my system, but the original drive was corrupted into a USB drive. That should never have happened! and I had to redo my system. (BCD/EFI issue) Lesson Learned: When it comes to Window Systems, 2 backup clones is not extravagant.

CuriousBean
Replying to @TBayAreaPat

lol, I noticed your post has been "pending approval" for more than two years. Guess I won't get my hopes up for most of mine in the same category :D

ibay770
1

It's free version has a ton of features, very well coded, and no annoying bloatware like Easeus. Another feature iI haven't yet seen in any other program, you can edit EFI boot entries with a few clicks instead of messing with the commandline. Makes adding Clover or EFGuard a breeze.

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msori
0

The other day, I accidentally deleted a Bitlocker (new version) encrypted partition. With DiskGenius, it took a couple of minutes and it simply wrote back the partition table. No need to copy the data before having it as it was before.

The other candidate was iboysoft Data Recovery, which would have worked as well. As far as I could see, it has no advantage but it costs much more. They do much more aggressive publicity and, therefore, it is easier to stumble over it.

CuriousBean
0

LOVE its uncommon features, such as its ability to unlock BitLocker encryption.

mll
2

It's the only software that offers a migrate OS to SSD feature for free as of today.

TBayAreaPat
Replying to @mll

2024 I believe Hasleo Backup, HDClone, MiniTool Drive Copy amongst others will do that now.

heartily
1

Mainly I choose it because it can repair bad sector. Also it can manage partition.

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Install from the command line

  • winget install -e --id Eassos.DiskGenius

Be careful what you paste into a terminal. Check what a command installs before running it.

What is DiskGenius?

DiskGenius, previously PartitionGuru, is full-featured partition manager, which is designed to optimize disk usage for Windows users.

Feature: #- Data and Partitions Recovery. #- Manage Hard Drive:

  • Resize / Split Partition.
  • One-click partition a hard drive.
  • Complete Wipe Partition.
  • Create / Format Partition (It supports NTFS, exFAT, FAT32, FAT16, FAT12, EXT2, EXT3 and EXT4 file systems.)
  • Create WinPE Bootable Disk. #- Disk or Partition Conversion:
  • Convert MBR/GPT Disk.
  • Convert Dynamic/Basic Disk.
  • Convert Primary/Logical Drive.
  • Convert Virtual Disk Format like VMware ".VMDK", Virtual PC ".VHD" and Virtual Box ".VDI".
  • Convert USB disk to FDD or ZIP mode so as to build bootable DOS system). #- Disk or Partition Clone Wizard. #- Back up system partition and other system related partitions, including system files, boot files, settings, applications, etc. #- UEFI Compatibility. #- Disk Utilities: (Check & Repair Bad Sectors, View S.M.A.R.T. Information, Permanently Delete Files, Erase Free Space, Hex Editor, Check 4K Alignment, Format USB Drive In Batch, Rebuild MBR, Check Partition Table Error,Support LVM).

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Our users have written 14 comments and reviews about DiskGenius, and it has gotten 45 likes

DiskGenius was added to AlternativeTo by Danilo Venom on and this page was last updated . DiskGenius is sometimes referred to as Partition Guru, PartitionGuru.