• Why can’t Windows provide their own drive partition tool?

    Posted on December 7, 2022 at 20:08 CST by • Comment in the Forums

    Tonight I will ask the pondering question of why…. why can’t Microsoft/Windows provide a native tool that properly partitions drives?

    If you want to merely expand a drive and there’s no other space next to where you want to expand, no problem. But if the drive isn’t quite set up right, you have to go to a third party Linux based tool to resize, expand, etc etc.

    Some of the ones I’ve used include:

    MiniTool

    EaseUS

    Paragon

    All of them work well.

    But why, Microsoft?  Why can’t in the year 2022, why can’t you natively include a tool to handle what I consider to be … well…. basic?

    When have I used tools like this?

    On physical machines where I’ve moved to a new SSD drive and suddenly I find that I can’t expand the bigger area because of some OEM partition left behind.

    On virtual machines where it won’t let me expand the C drive.  (Just had to do this the other day on a domain controller)

    To me this just seems like something you should be able to do at 37 years of age.

    What do you think?

     

    Windows 10
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