"I'm looking for a bootable USB partition manager which will be able to resize partitions without booting up OS."
This is a common need related to the partition manager in the forums. Given that, this article will guide you to create a bootable USB partition manager so to help you safely manage hard drive partitions without booting up OS:
Briefly speaking, a USB bootable partition manager is burnt with a partition magic software ISO file. With a bootable partition manager, Windows users can boot their PCs into a WinPE state from a USB bootable drive and manage partitions flexibly and safely.
If you are looking for a complete guide for creating a bootable partition manager, follow the tutorials below, we'll show guide you to create a partition magic bootable USB and safely manage disk partitions without booting up Windows OS.
In this part, you'll learn how to create a bootable partition manager to USB drive via the following two steps:
Note that to create a bootable partition manager to a USB flash drive, you'll need two important tools:
①. Qiling Partition Magic Software; ②. A USB flash drive.
Check out how to get the two tools ready so as to create a powerful bootable partition manager on USB.
First. Download Partition Magic Software - Qiling Partition Master
Qiling Partition Master is the best partition manager for both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows operating systems. Qiling Partition Master can create a partition manager bootable USB that allows Windows users to boot PC from the USB drive to safely manage hard drive partitions.
Besides partitioning hard drive, RAID, Qiling Partition Master can also partition USB drive, flash drive, memory card, and other storage devices.
Next. Prepare USB
To make the bootable USB work, before you start the creation process, make sure that your USB is ready. Here are some preparations for you to follow:
After getting things ready, you can now launch Qiling Partition Master, connect USB to your PC, and follow the tutorial steps below to create a bootable USB partition manager on your own:
Step 1. To create a bootable disk of Qiling Partition Master, you should prepare a storage media, like a USB drive, flash drive or a CD/DVD disc. Then, correctly connect the drive to your computer.
Step 2. Launch Qiling Partition Master, find the "WinPE Creator" feature on the top. Click on it.
Step 3. You can choose the USB or CD/DVD when the drive is available. However, if you do not have a storage device at hand, you can also save the ISO file to a local drive, and later burn it to a storage media. Once made the option, click the "Proceed" button to begin.
When the process finishes, you have successfully created an Qiling Partition Master WinPE bootable disk. Now, you can manage your hard disks and partitions through the bootable drive whenever the computer fails to boot normally.
If you have RAID drives, load the RAID driver first by clicking Add Driver from the menu bar, which can help you add the driver of your device under WinPE environment, as some specific device cannot be recognized under WinPE environment without drivers installed, such as RAID or some specific hard disk.
After getting the Qiling bootable USB partition manager ready, you can boot the PC from the Qiling partition magic bootable USB and safely manage partitions in a WinPE environment.
#1. Boot PC from Qiling Partition Magic Bootable USB
Step 1. Connect the created bootable USB partition manager to your computer.
Step 2. Restart PC and press F2/F8/F11/Del to enter BIOS.
Step 3. Go to the Boot section, select and set PC to boot from "Removable Devices" (Qiling bootable USB disk).
Step 4. Save the changes and exit. Continue booting up PC from the bootable USB.
After this, your PC will boot up from the bootable USB drive and enter the Qiling Partition Master interface. You may now move to the next tutorial to start partitioning hard drive partitions.
#2. Safely Manage Hard Drive Partitions in Qiling Bootable Partition Manager
What can you do after entering the Qiling WinPE partition manager? It can perform basic and advanced partition operations on your hard drive without data loss, including:
[1] "Resize/Move"enables you to adjust space of a selected disk partition as wish. By "Resize/Move", you can shrink a volume, extend the other one, or create unallocated space for special use.
[2] "Clone"is for the purpose of making two identical hard disks or partitions with the same layout and content. You can use the "Clone" feature to upgrade a hard disk, replace a failing one, backup the drive data and so on.
[3] "Delete"is a common method to remove an unwanted disk partition, turning it into unallocated space.
[4] "Format"is frequently used in many situations. By formatting a drive partition, you can alter the file system, fix some corruption issues, and sometimes remove viruses and malware.
[5] "Allocate space"is very useful when one drive partition space is too much while the other is inadequate.
[6] "Migrate OS"makes it easy to transfer a Windows installation drive to the other without reinstalling.
[7] Conversion between GPT and MBR, NTFS and FAT32, and Basic to Dynamic is getting more and more popular among Qiling Partition Master customers. Besides all the listed benefits, there are so many functional yet practical features are waiting you to explore.
On this page, we explained what is a bootable partition manager, and guide you on how to create a USB bootable partition manager to safely partition hard drives without booting up OS.
If you need to execute some operations such as extending system partition without booting up PC, to make things easy, we suggest you use Qiling Partition Master for help.