

What makes Partition Assistant Standard stand out among the plethora of other free partition managers such as MiniTool Partition Wizard Free and EaseUS Partition Master Free? The crucial factor is its current feature set.įirst, there’s the ability to create bootable rescue media - an essential step as partitioning can (and does) go wrong - there’s an extra bonus point for being able to integrate its tools into your current recovery partition too. That release also introduced a new 'SSD Secure Erase Wizard', which can revert SSD drives to their factory state. This limitation - which only applied when resizing under Windows environments (as opposed to the Windows PE environment) - had been introduced in version 6.5, released back in August.

One final change is that the limitation for resizing or moving the system boot partition in Windows 10 (version 1703 or later) has been removed.

Partition Standard’s bootable rescue media has also been improved - when creating rescue media on 64-bit systems, the resulting boot media supports both UEFI and legacy BIOS boot modes. Version 6.6’s headline new feature is partial support for the exFAT file system - now users can create, delete, format, move and copy exFAT partitions alongside other supported formats, including NTFS, FAT/FAT32 and EXT2/EXT3.
