http://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html wrote:MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition is a free partition manager [...] supports 32/64 bit Windows Operating System including Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8. Home users can perform complicated partition operations by using this powerful yet free partition manager to manage their hard disk. Functions include: Resizing partitions, Copying partitions, Create partition, Delete partition, Format partition, Convert partition, Explore partition, Hide partition, Change drive letter, Set active partition, Partition Recovery.
Gizmo's Freeware review rates it with 9/10 stars (90%):
Please note that although the free Home version doesn't allow for merging partitions, the bootable ISO does. The program's page is http://www.partitionwizard.com/, but the download link points to CNet which forces its darned downloader on everyone; fortunately it's also present at Softpedia:http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/best-free-partition-manager.htm wrote:Runs as a stand-alone program on a user's computer. Fast performance, easy to use graphic interface, supports RAID drives, supports disks over 2 TB, bootable recovery CD available for download, can repairs Master Boot Records (both MBR and GPT formats). Supports Linux ext2 and ext3 files systems. Data Protection mode allows for more non-reboot required editing scenarios, and the recovery media offers much of the functionality of the full, online program.
www.softpedia.com /get/System/Hard-Disk-Utils/Partition-Wizard-Home-Edition.shtml.
Partition Wizard is a Qt app; it can easily be UniExtracted and all its files will be inside the {app} folder; on execution, the only registry entry I found was this one:
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[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\MiniTool Solution Ltd.]
Also on execution, Partition Wizard seems to drop three files at %WINDIR%\sytem32\ (which would be drivers, most likely):
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"pwdrvio.sys"
"pwdspio.sys"
"pwNative.exe"