EASEUS Partition Master
If you are looking for free partition software EASEUS Partition Master is one of the best. This software lets you create, shrink, merge, format, etc your hard drive partition in Windows. You probably do not need EASEUS for Windows Seven as this version of Windows has some great features when it comes to partitioning.
I have previously written an article about how to shrink a partition using the Windows but there are limitations. For example you cannot do much with Windows XP unless you use software such as EASEUS. Windows Vista can be altered but in some versions you will need to clear the files out to keep them safe. I have also written articles about how to merge and delete a partition but this fantastic software will do all that for you.
You can simply install freeware software on your computer and immediately start to re-size, create, or even format your partition.
As Partition Magic alternative, EASEUS Partition Master Home Edition is a FREE ALL-IN-ONE partition solution and disk management utility. It allows you to extend partition (especially for system drive), manage disk space easily, settle low disk space problem on MBR and GUID partition table (GPT) disk under Windows 2000/XP/Vista/Windows 7 (SP1 included) 32 bit and 64 bit system.
See the main features it includes in the free Home edition.
Since I mostly use laptops now I haven’t needed any partition software anymore but what I did try to do is use that partition software to convert a fat to an ntfs disk. But apparently that is very difficult for a computer. And probably using a 1tb external hdd isn’t the smartest thing anyway. But what I found out is that my computer is very limited to the size of the ntfs disk/partition that it can make.