Best Free Alternative to Fdisk for Windows 10/8/7

About Fdisk

Fdisk is a command line utility included with MS DOS that allows you to format or partition hard drives. Since Windows NT, Fdisk has been replaced by diskpart, a more advanced partitioning tool. The last version of Windows that comes with Fdisk was Windows 98 with a DOS shell, which later versions of Windows do not have. The Fdisk program has a 512GB maximum limit size of hard drive, so Fdisk only partially works in Windows XP. Fdisk knows nothing about NTFS which is the default file system in Windows 7 and the later versions of Windows, so it is useless in Windows 7. As the facts mentioned above, if you want to install any old system on an old PC, you can use Fdisk, but for Windows 10/8/7, you are most likely need a free alternative to Fdisk to manage your drives.

What makes a perfect Fdisk replacement?

To be a perfect replacement of Fdisk, one must at least

1. Fully support Windows 10/8/8.1/7

2. Be easy to understand and operate

3. Have the basic functions regarding drives management

4. Be safe without data loss

5. Be able to run from command prompt

Can we find free partition software that meets all these requirements? The answer is clearly YES.

Free Windows Fdisk equivalent - AOMEI Partition Assistant

AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard, a Windows freeware, enables you to format or partition hard drive more easily and faster. AOMEI Partition Assistant comes with a concise graphical interface, which is more suitable for users' habits, so you can finish all work with only mouse-click. It allows you to preview the operations before applying, so you can undo the operations if it doesn’t suit you. It supports making changes to your partitions and disks without data loss, such as resize partition, convert dynamic disk to basic disk, convert disk between MBR and GPT. Any operations that may cause data loss will ask you to confirmation before being executed. Behold the clear and visualized interface of AOMEI Partition Assistant. 

Besides, AOMEI Partition Assistant also supports partitioning hard drive from command line by providing partassist.exe utility. Users can run a script or enter direct commands in command prompt to resize/move a partition without data loss, create/delete/format a partition, rebuild MBR, etc. As a conclusion, AOMEI Partition Assistant is the perfect free alternative to Fdisk for being capable of things much more than Fdisk can do. You can free download and use this partition manager software now.

If you do not content with this freeware, you can try the AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional edition that provides more advanced features.