What’s The Easiest Partition Manager On The Ultimate Boot CD?

If you’ve been working with computers long enough whether new, old or both, you’ve most likely used The Ultimate Boot CD at least a handful of times. UBCD is a free ISO you can download and burn that contains a plethora of disk utilities.

Many of the utilities are redundant in the respect that several perform the same function but just in a different way.

In this article I’m specifically going to concentrate on the partition managers when working with Windows partitions.

Recently I had to use the UBCD to work with some NTFS stuff, and what I wanted was the quickest, easiest one of the lot that let me create a NTFS partition so I could get on with my business.

My personal pick for creating an NTFS partition quickly and easily is Cute Partition Manager. I prefer this one for several reasons:

1. It actually has mouse support. Granted, you can use keyboard-only if you wish, but the fact the mouse worked on launch is good.
2. Everything you need to get to is laid out on the first screen, namely "create" and "delete" which is in plain sight.
3. Drive information is also given on the main screen at bottom right.

Cute Partition Manager works with more or less every type of Microsoft partition that exists. FAT16, FAT32 and NTFS (of course) are all there. Linux-type partitions (ext2, ext3, etc.) are also there, however on the Linux side of things, GParted and cfdisk are still my preferences there.

Note that there isn’t any one partition manager that’s inherently better than another, but when working with NTFS, I consider Cute Partition Manager the easiest of the lot because I can create the NTFS partition I need and set the boot flag in seconds.